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Your Brain is Plastic

These Voracious Ants Are Their Own Mobile Home

How the Dinosaurs Actually Went Extinct

Why Can’t We Scoop All the Plastic Out of the Ocean?

How Climate Change Affects Ocean Life | Compilation

SciShow Quiz Show: Weird Water Creatures & Spontaneous Combustion!

How Can E. coli Help Save Humanity?

The Scientist Who Mapped the Seafloor: Marie Tharp | Great Minds

How Meltdown and Spectre Make Your Computer Vulnerable

5 Science-Backed Barbecue Tips

Ice Quakes, Your Brain on Pot & the Body Language of Victory

This Video Game Software Helps Us Do Paleontology

No Ears, No Problem: Frogs Can Hear With Their Lungs

Condor Females Don’t Need a Male to Hatch Chicks

Kudzu: So Bad It Even Makes the Air Worse!

Agriculture May Have Changed How People Speak | SciShow News

3 Secrets About Ancient Earth, Hidden in Marine Fossils

3 Great Discoveries of 2013

Ancient Genetics that Still Occur Today: Atavisms Explained

The Science of Codes: An Intro to Cryptography

SciShow Needs You!

A Timeline of Life on Earth: 4 Billion Years of History

The Rarest Cancer on Earth: Only One Known Case

5 Kinds of Slime Found in Nature | Slime Time Compilation

The Bernoullis: When Math is the Family Business

Why Do Cats Do That? Baffling Cat Questions Explained!

New Research to Help You Choose Eco-Friendly Foods | SciShow News

Hank Green Eats Great or Gross Cookies While Signing Postcards | SciShow Livestream

How Far Away Volcanoes Collapsed Entire Empires

5 Amazing Record-Breaking Caves

Do Animals Appreciate Music?

North America's Lost Parrot

Mendeleev's Periodic Table

5 Things We Can Learn From Alaska

Does Medicine Actually Expire?

Tardigrades: Adorable Extremophiles

There's a Big Problem With Silicon. What's Next?

How Antarctica Froze Over

3 World-Changing Biology Experiments

Old Pill, New Trick

"Antibodies" of the Future: Smaller, Better, Faster, Stronger | History of Antibodies

Why Does Music Give Us Chills?

Can You Actually Die from a Broken Heart?

How to Find Out Why T. rex Arms Were… Like That | SciShow News

Three MORE Things You Missed Because of COVID

How the Internet Was Invented: Part 1

Earth Has Another Magnetic Field

Why Are Cheetahs the Fastest Land Animal?

Could we Have Universal Flu Vaccine?

Meet The Black Swallower: Nature's Top Competitive Eater

Exotic Chemistry: World's Oldest Water and The Rarest Element

Awesome Inventions by African Americans

Will Pangea Form Again? The Next Supercontinent on Earth

Why Do We Burp and Fart (So Much)?!

This Beautiful House Is Made of Snot

Animals Getting Bigger, and How Cannabis Causes Hunger

Why Don't All Birds Fly in V Shapes?

The Secret Ingredient in Ruminant Spit

The Secret to Super Strong Concrete Is... Bacteria?

What Do Scientists Really Know About Polyphasic Sleep?

The Unsung Scientist Behind the Building Blocks of DNA | Marie M. Daly

Birds, Cheetahs, and Curly Bird the Turaco: Talk Show #20

A Pure and Restful Quiz Show | SciShow Quiz Show

Why People Keep Eating Tide Pods

We Taught Birds to Sing by Altering Their Brains | SciShow News

What Growing Mini Brains Has Taught Us, And What's Next

Can’t Sleep? Blame the Climate Crisis

This Parasite Needs To Ruin Three Lives

The First Gene-Edited Babies Are Here, Like It or Not | SciShow News

The Terrifying Fish with Transparent Teeth

Animal Melodies: 5 of Nature’s Sweetest Singers

The User's Guide For Your Butt | SciShow Compilation

Can You Really Be Scared to Death?

Meet Nell: The Skeleton Rocket That Flew

Here's What DNA Really Looks Like

Is This About To Revolutionize Antidepressants?

20% of Humans Have an Extra Spleen—Here's Why

Tank to Table: How Scientists Make Bigger, Tastier Seafood

Terpenes: The Most Common Language in the World

The Shocking Truth About Electric Animals!

SciShow Quiz Show: Eons Edition!

8 Facts About Animals We Got Wrong

Why Scientists Are Using Mice to Make Human Cells

DeepDream: Inside Google's 'Daydreaming' Computers

Why Are Self-Driving Cars Taking So Long?

Should You Worry About Your Gas Stove?

5 Animals That Have Bone Skin

Why Do Some Doctors Still Use Bloodletting?

How Worried Should You Be About Smart Home Security?

4 Medicinal Plants that Are Incredibly Good for You

Does Getting COVID-19 Make You Immune to It? | SciShow News

The Science (and Dangers) of Booze in Humans

3D Printing and the Future of Stuff

The Science of Tear Gas

What Omicron Means for the Pandemic’s Future | SciShow News

5 Life Hacks For When You're Sick

Why Can't We Design A Bear-Proof Trash Can?

For Some Animals, The World Moves in Slow-Motion

The Truth About Dog Years (Your Pupper Is Older Than You Think!)

8 Incredibly Brilliant Spiders

How to Stop Cancer Using RNA

The Spiders That Turn Stars into Planets

The Leidenfrost Effect: How to Make a Liquid Levitate

How Machine Learning Makes Our Decisions Smarter

The Rocky Road to the Most Powerful Rocket in History

This Tree Oozes Metal Sap

Is Sitting up Straight Actually Good Posture?

Fukushima Is Releasing Its Nuclear Wastewater

What Penguin Bones Can Tell Us About Dying Glaciers

A Deep Dive Into The Bizarre Future of Telescopes

No One Knows Where These Gems Came From

How Modern Technology Protects You From Toxic Poop

Faster Than Light Facts, Horny Little Man, and Worst Science Movie Winner!

The Mysterious Origins of the Nucleus

Why Do We Need Yearly Flu Shots, but Not Measles Shots?

Behold—Poisonous Snakes! (Yes, You Read That Right)

This Tortoise Has a Taste for Blood | SciShow News

Working on Pathfinder: SciShow Talk Show

Why Do Dogs Shake to Dry Off?

The Earth's "Boring Billion" Years Were Anything But

How Long Have We Been Playing with Fire?

Ancient Lake in Antarctica Reached!

SciShow Season 2 Outtakes, 2013

How Traditional Ice Fishing Led to the French Fries in Your Freezer

Don't Eat the Watermelon Snow!

The Science of Parkour

Chemistry & Corpses: The Science of Bog Bodies

Is Long COVID Real? What We Know So Far

How Dogs Really Listen to Us, and How Pufferfish Puff

The 6 Most Common Myths About Cancer

The Best Fonts, According to Science

This One Ugly Animal Tells The Whole Story Of The Great Dying (ft. Emily Graslie!)

Can Feeling the Love Save Lions? | SciShow News

Why Your Dog Has An Anti-Tick Pill And You Don’t?

Schrödinger's iPad? New Breakthroughs in Quantum Computing

Ballot Design Has a Sneaky Influence on Your Vote

Ecstasy in Rivers and The World's First Geological Map

The Bizarre World Of Underwater Sneezing

You’re Not a Lab Mouse, but You Might Be a Wild Mouse

Over-Apologizing Less with Vanessa Hill | SciShow Talk Show

3 Extreme Climate Fixes

5 More Strange Flying Machines

How to Survive a Nuclear Attack

Where Are A Whale's Nipples?

3 Facts About Lemmings

Why Our Brains Hallucinate As We Fall Asleep

How These Bacteria Live Off Crude Oil

The Most Effective Scientific Measurements

5 Bizarre Aircraft That Pushed the Boundaries of Engineering

Facts About Fracking

This is Weird but...COVID Decreased Lightning Strikes

IDTIMWYTIM: Equinox (Stupid Latin!)

How Smart Are Animals, Really?

Thank Climate Change for the Awful Allergy Season

What This Video Will Do to Your Friends' Brains

Will You be Iron Man?

Did Dinosaurs Have Belly Buttons?

How Giant Creatures Eat Tiny Meals: 5 Fabulous Filter Feeders

Scientists Want to Microwave the Moon

No, Your Dog Doesn't Think You're the "Alpha"

Salted Nukes: An Even More Dangerous Bomb

4 Awesome Future Space Missions

The Truth About the Gut to Brain Connection

Rogue Waves

How Can Microbes Protect Crops From Drought?

How Antihistamines May Solve Your Problems

Our Food Is Full of These 5 Chemicals

SPF Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means

3 Facts About Dust Mites You'll Wish You Never Knew

How the First Americans Got There

Are Sharks Really Older Than the North Star?

Pink Lake Mystery Solved!

The Weird Reason More Bridges Are About to Fail

SciShow Quiz Show: Battle of the Brains!

Where Should I Put My Wi-Fi Router?

Why Scientists Keep Trying to Break This 18th Century Law

The 6 Strangest Places on Earth | SciShow Compilation

Your Fridge Isn’t Green, but It Could Be

Megatsunamis: World's Biggest Wave

The 4 New Body Parts Recently Discovered

Do Essential Oils Really Work? And Why?

The Human Era Has an Official Start. It’s a Lake in Canada

What Happens If You Leave Your Contacts in for Too Long?

Why Are Saturn’s Rings Younger Than Saturn?

SciShow Talk Show: The Clitoris & Wilbur the Hognose Snake

The Mystery of the Biggest Genomes

SciShow Quiz Show: A Different Kind of Animal Wonders

5 Mysteries Science Created and Solved

How Upside-Down Jellies Sting You Without Touching You

The Dark History of Matches

The Secret World of Ones and Zeroes: Moore's Law Explained

What Does a 95% Effective Vaccine Really Mean?

How Animals Can Get High in the Wild

Rocking & Sleep: It's Not Just for Babies

Cheers to the Science of Booze

What Is An Organ?

The Scary American Bat Die-Off

BigBrain & Supermoon

Taboos of Science

Another Zika Update & Quantum Physics Gamers

Masks? Handwashing? Sanitizer? — How to Protect Yourself from Coronaviruses

Can Pets Be Allergic to People?

Fastest Day on Record...but We're Slowing Down | SciShow News

The Deadly Sea Angels

How We Proved Earth Rotates Using a Giant Swinging Ball

Why You Can't Bake a Mason Jar

The First Known Bird Could Fly, But Super Awkwardly

ASMR: That Happy, Tingly Feeling

How Michael Faraday Changed the World with a Magnet | Great Minds

Concerning Hobbits

COVID-19 Reinfections Are a Thing: Here’s What We Know So Far | SciShow News

Ticks Can Spread An Allergy To… Red Meat?

The Mysterious Black Clouds of Birds: Murmurations Explained

What Does Polar Bear Milk Taste Like?

How Gravity Actually Affects Your Brain

Giant Antarctic Sea Spiders | SciShow Talk Show

That’s Not a Rattlesnake… It’s an Owl!

The Strange Blue Glow That Saved Lives

Anorexia Isn't Just a Psychiatric Disorder

Wild Facts You Never Knew About Beavers

Pareidolia: Why People Keep Seeing Crazy Stuff on Mars

Hydras: Our Immortal, Tentacled Friends

Extreme Survivors: Species That Live in Crazy Conditions

Birds Are A Quick Fix For Your Anxiety

The Dress: Now with Peer-Reviewed Science!

π 'N' Science

How the Internet Came to Be | Part 2

What Makes Cancer So Hard to Cure

Why Hairworms Don’t Have Hair

5 Times Evolution Did Its Best

Solar Energy

Why Aliens Might Love Their Frozen Home

Alice Hamilton: The Doctor Who Made Work Safer | Great Minds

Why We Have Cats as Pets: The History of Feline Domestication

Animals Have Nepo Babies Too

How Tattoos Really Work... At Least in Mice

What's The Oldest Tree in the World?

What Does Anesthesia Do to Your Brain?

A Brief History of Life: Survival Is Hard

Extreme Engineering to Create the World's Stillest Rooms

Telepathic Rats and a Red-lored Amazon: SciShow Talk Show #10

Blood Scrubbing Nano Magnets

SciShow Talk Show: John Roach on Ecology & Freckles the Leopard Gecko

Can Screens Damage Your Eyes?

Can Rock and Roll Replace Your Insulin?

Who Was Henrietta Leavitt? The Brilliant Female Astronomer

Pyrotherapy: An Awful Nobel Prize for Infecting People with Malaria

Does COVID Mess With Your DNA?

Why Does Squinting Help You See Better?

Adorable Dolphin Kiddos Play Like Us

Why Lizards Don't Run Marathons

These Modern Animals Have Prehistoric Twins

Sun VS. Atomic Bomb

These Lice Dive Kilometers Under the Ocean!

3 Neat Facts About Narwhals (Including: They're Real!)

5 Failed Science Experiments That Made Headlines

Pickles, Probiotics, and Why Rotten Food Is Good For You

This Crystal Is ELECTRIC

The First Room Temperature Superconductor! (Still No Hoverboards) | SciShow News

Are We Overdue for a Megaquake?

What You Never Knew About Trees | SciShow Compilation

What’s a Particle Accelerator Doing in a Hospital?

How to Make Snow (If You're Not Elsa)

SciShow Talk Show: Carl Zimmer & Genetics

The Rocket that Hopped

Why Crabs Keep Leaving the Sea for the Land

6 Fascinating Ways Our Ancestors Navigated the Oceans

Extreme Animal Cannibalism

Can You Really Get Pregnant...While Already Pregnant? | Superfetation Explained

Can Lead Actually Turn into Gold?

Are Hand Dryers Sanitary?

How Do Brine Shrimp Survive In Packaging For Years?

The Electric Light Bulb Was Invented Centuries Before Edison

Science for Getting Swole: An Exercise Compilation

This Beetle Crawls Through Frog Intestines to Survive Being Eaten

Why Do Humans Have Butts?

How to Make A Humanzee

5D, Holograms, & DNA: Amazing Hard Drives of the Future

Loudest Bird in the World Screams at its Mate | SciShow News

Firehawks: Nature's Arsonists

4 Real Inventions Inspired by Science Fiction

Buckyball: Tiny Carbon Soccer Balls

The Last Living Thing Won't Be a Cockroach

What Does 'Clinically Proven' Actually Mean?

How to Move a Mountain

Baumgartner's Super Sonic Dive

The Psychology of The Button

The 5 Most Important Molecules in Your Body

All About Poop, Plus a Tortoise: SciShow Talk Show #15

The Problem with Willpower and Self-Control | A Psychology Experiment

What Science Reveals about Shipwreck Graveyards

There Probably Aren't Different Strains of SARS-CoV-2 (Yet)

How Do Animals Know Which Way is Up?

How to Save Earth From...Us

I Can't Believe It's Not Wood

Talk Show: Owls and Pigeons

5 Clues to Earth's Climate History

The Biggest and Brightest Space News of 2023

Could Your Dopplegänger Actually Be Related to You?

Why Do Cats Purr?

The Ghostly Particles That May Have Unbalanced the Universe

Why Old School Gardening May Hold the Key to Our Future Survival

Are My Electronics Making Me Sick?

Why You Shouldn't Trust All Health Food Trends | SciShow Compilation

Secrets of the Vampire Squid

Solving the 70 Million Year “Gap” in Flower Evolution

Will Humans Ever Be Able to Hibernate?

We Keep Finding Fossils in VERY Weird Places...

Hilde Mangold and the Organizer of Life | Great Minds

CSI Special Insects Unit: Forensic Entomology

Why Inducing Hallucinations Might Be a Good Idea

Why You Might Want Someone Else's Poop Inside You

Your Brain Once Had a Superpower. Could You Get It Back?

9 Sleep Discoveries That Could Change Your Life

How Can Orange Juice Make Your Kale Better?

The Rare Fossils We Find By The Thousands

SciShow Quiz Show: Invest in Your Digestion!

5 Kinds of Glass Made by Nature

How NASA Detected Invisible Fires... With Brooms

Why Are These Foods Unfarmable?

Studying Supernovas From the Bottom of the Ocean

The 17+ Different Kinds of Ice!

The Invisible Line in the Indian Ocean

The Impact of Diseases | Disease Ecology Explained

Why Do We Keep Planting Trees That Smell Like Semen?

Why Do Fish School?

How Mammal Jaw Bones Evolved into Ears

Meet Dragon Man, Humans’ Possible New Relative | SciShow News

How to Live Forever? Be a Jellyfish

Are Electric Cars Really More Environmentally Friendly?

Secrets of Life from A Giant Pool of Asphalt | Weird Places: Pitch Lake, Trinidad

Happy Mole Day!

5 Ways Orcas Have Earned the Nickname “Killer Whale”

Molecule Architecture: SciShow Talk Show with Dr. Orion Berryman

6 Sneaky Snakes That Might Freak You Out

Quantum Computing Breakthrough

How To Clear Icy Roads, With Science

The 8 Most Painful Insect Stings on Earth

The Deadliest Toxins on Earth

You Suck at Skipping Rocks

How Earth Recycled a Mountain Range

Why Do Cats Like Catnip?

Can this Plant /Actually/ See?

The Wildest Noises in Wildlife… and Dunes

5 Robots You Can Hug

Why Did the Rooster Lose Its Penis?

5 Ancient Body Myths that Are Wildly Inaccurate

The Deadly Fog That Killed 12,000: What Really Happened?

Why Do I Have to Brush My Teeth?

4 Weird Unsolved Mysteries of Math

The Sun Isn't Normal. This Telescope Learned the Hard Way.

How Plants Tell Time

More on Mating & Monogamy

Glenn Seaborg: Shaking Up the Periodic Table

Photosynthesis WITHOUT THE SUN

This Is What Peak Crustacean Looks Like

How Honey Can Fight Deadly Bacteria

The Only Animal That Can't Breathe Oxygen

Bdelloids: The Most Hardcore Animals in the World?

5 Ways Antarctica is the Place to Study Space

The Psychology of Trolling

Targeting Iron to Fight Cancer | SciShow News

Is There a Way to Sober Up Faster?

Why Ferns Have More Chromosomes Than You

The 7 Scariest Creatures in Australia That You Probably Don't Know About

How Researchers Made Mice Pups from Two Moms and Two Dads | SciShow News

The 'Dancing Cat' Disaster of Japan | Minamata Explained

Weird Places: The Lava Lake in Antarctica

The Manhattan Project

Animal Clothes & Exploding Toads | SciShow Quiz Show

Anal Teeth, Paralyzing Farts, and Other Weaponized Butts

7 Real-Life Unicorns

Oh No...Is Nature Going to Make Climate Change WORSE?! | SciShow News

We Just Found Out Fat Cells Can Move!

Why Salvia is One of the Strongest Psychedelics on Earth

Why Echidnas Are Evolutionary Misfits

5 Ancient Places with Unbelievable Acoustics

The Tallest, Smallest, and Oldest Science of 2019

5 Devastating Security Flaws You've Never Heard Of

SciShow Quiz Show: Weird Animal Parenting

What Makes Earth’s Magnetic Field Change Direction?

Is Alkaline Water Actually Better For You?

This Is Not What an Atom Looks Like

Why Marine Mammals Suck

Insect Filth and Bloody Messes with Evelyn From The Internets!

How Can We Clean Up the Oceans?

These Strawberries Aren't Red!

Why Do Tornadoes Hate America?

The Protein That Switches on Puberty

Goodall, Fossey & Galdikas: Great Minds

10 Reasons You Might Be Hallucinating

How Big Can Black Holes Grow?

Deep Sea Microbiome: SciShow Talk Show

5 Mysteries About The Universe We Haven't Solved

The Nuclear City Lost Under Ice | Camp Century

Seasonal Genes & The Science of Fear

How Does IVF Make Babies?

7 Animals with Super Weird (and Sometimes Horrifying) Teeth

What Color is Your Blood?

Why You’ll Find This Disclaimer on Every Diet Soda

The Science of Why Bacon and Eggs Are the Perfect Match

The Wild Reasons Many Older People Wake Up So Early

Why Some Frozen Lakes Catch Fire

How U.S. Airports Might Revamp Security... Using Game Theory

Bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef, and a Zika Update

5 Amazing Ways That Animals Fly

7 Dinosaur Mysteries We Haven't Fully Figured Out

How We Could Prevent a Global Rice Shortage

How To Make Antivenom