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226 EE What Does the Food and Drug Administration Do?
225 EE What Does the Environmental Protection Agency Do?
224 EE 5 Immigrants and Refugees Who Changed U.S. Science
223 EE How Do You Estimate Crowd Size?
222 EE How to Support Renewable Energy (And Why You Really Should)
221 EE What Are Fast Radio Bursts?
220 EE Why Is the Ozone Hole Shrinking?
177 EE Why Does the Melting of Arctic Sea Ice Matter?
219 EE What Does 'Mercury in Retrograde' Mean?
218 EE Lithium-Ion Batteries: What They Are and Why They Explode
217 EE 6 Tips for Identifying Fake News
174 EE How Are Seasonal Flu Vaccines Made?
216 EE What to Say to a Climate Change Skeptic
215 EE The Science Behind Climate Change
214 EE The Science Behind How Your Vote Is Counted
213 EE Is the Five Second Rule Real?
212 EE The Neuroscience of Fear: What Happens in Your Brain When You're Afraid
156 EE Do Aliens Exist?
211 EE Can You Really Trust Election Polls?
210 EE Should I Get a Flu Shot?
209 EE How Antibiotics Work: Past, Present, and Future
208 EE How Many Stars Are in the Sky?
207 EE New Research Reveals There Are 4 Separate Species of Giraffes
205 EE Proxima B: 5 Things You Need to Know About the New Earth-Like Planet
135 EE Why We Dump Plastic into the Ocean
204 EE Can Animals Feel Empathy?
203 EE How Do the Strongest, Fastest Animals Compare to Olympians?
202 EE Why Do Some Olympic Records Get Broken?
200 EE What Does Pokémon Go Mean for Augmented Reality?
139 EE Will the Sun Explode?
199 EE 5 Quick Facts About NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter
198 EE 9 Tips to Win a Competitive Eating Contest
197 EE What Are the Summer Solstice and the Strawberry Moon?
196 EE Does Soap Really Kill 99.9% of Germs?
194 EE Science Experiments at Home: The Edible Solar System
193 EE What Causes Wildfires?
192 EE What Does It Mean for Mars to Be in 'Full Opposition'?
191 EE Is Interstellar Travel Really Possible?
190 EE 5 Incredible Facts About Octopuses
189 EE Will Salt Water Quench the World’s Thirst?
002 UH Unknown History, as Explained Through Science
188 EE Can Music Make Us Smarter and Help Us Heal Faster?
187 EE CRISPR-Cas9 Technology Allows Us to Edit Our Own DNA
184 EE 7 Surprisingly Revolutionary Ways to Use 3D Printers
183 EE Women in Science: Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of DNA
182 EE What Will Astronaut Scott Kelly's Year in Space Teach Us?
181 EE 5 Reasons You Should Care About the Discovery of Gravitational Waves
EE 179 The Search for Planet X
178 EE 6 Fun Science Experiments to Do with Snow
176 EE The Man Who Fell to Earth and the Importance of Space Travel
175 EE What causes allergies?
130 EE Satellites and Space Junk
173 EE Will Commercial Companies Be the Next to Take on Space Travel?
172 EE When Is It Safe to Eat Moldy Food?
133 EE How Do We Predict the Weather?
171 EE The Computer Science Behind the First Down Line
170 EE What About the Climate Is Changing?
169 EE Bill Nye's Advice to Tackle Climate Change
168 EE 4 Science Experiments for Leftover Halloween Candy
167 EE Can We Predict the Next Hurricane Patricia?
138 EE Is Anxiety Genetic?
166 EE 6 Buzzworthy Facts About Bees
165 EE Women in Science: Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer
164 EE Is there water or life on Mars?
163 EE Understanding Parkinson's Disease: An Interview with Jon Palfreman
162 EE What Causes the Tides?
161 EE 4 Science Headlines to Jumpstart Your Next Conversation
160 EE What Happens If You Fall Into a Black Hole?
159 EE 6 Back-to-School Activities to Get Students Excited About Science
158 EE Einstein's Legacy: The Photoelectric Effect
157 EE 4 Animal Similes We Use Incorrectly
132 EE Science in the Kitchen
155 EE Do Stars Really Twinkle? And Other Common Scientific Misconceptions
154 EE What Makes the New Horizons' Encounter With Pluto So Extraordinary?
153 EE 10 Facts You Didn't Know About Sharks
152 EE Science Experiments at Home: Liquids
129 EE Can We Feel the Earth Moving?
151 EE Making Jurassic Park a Reality
150 EE The Return of the Large Hadron Collider
149 EE Is the Radiation From My Cell Phone Dangerous?
148 EE Science Experiments at Home: Model Rockets
147 EE How Do Chameleons Change Color?
145 EE What Is a Volcano?
144 EE How to Survive an Astreroid Attack
143 EE Go Green: Reusable vs. Disposable Cups
142 EE The Best Way to Nap
140 EE Can You Prevent Myopia?
137 EE Women in Science: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
136 EE Mollusks Set a New Strength Record
134 EE What Is Dark Matter?
131 EE Early Birds vs. Night Owls
026 EDE What's on the Dark Side of the Moon?
128 EE Meet the New Everyday Einstein
127 EE Personal Genetics: Testing for Susceptibility
126 EE Personal Genetic Testing: Part 1
125 EE What Was the Christmas Star?
124 EE Science Q&A: Smoothies and Airplane Wings
123 EE The Science of Snow
031 EDE The Truth About Turkey
122 EE Evolution vs. Creationism: Bill Nye Joins the Debate