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The 480-Million-Year Story of the Appalachian Mountains

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The Science of the “Aura Farming” Boat Kid – Science of Human Balance

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Why Saturn’s Losing Its Rings

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What Are Bioengineered Food Ingredients? Revealed

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How Volcanoes on Mars Could Have Supported Life

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How Your Phone’s Battery Works

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How Microplastics Might Be In Our Water

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Why We Still Have Tailbones

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Are We Really 50% Genetically Related to Bananas?

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Why The Moon is Slowly Moving Away

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Will Asteroid 2024 YR4 Hit Earth?

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How AI is Consuming So Much Water – Explained

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200th Episode of Spectacular Science! – Exercise and the Brain with Dr. Charles Hillman

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What is an Infinity Mirror? Explained!

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Why Triangles Are Such a Strong Shape

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The Truth About Pesticides – With Dr. Changmou Xu

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The 3 Types of Heat Transfer – Explained!

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Titan – Studying Saturn’s Mysterious Moon with Dr. Lauren Schurmeier

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Why Green Means Go – The Science of Traffic Lights

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How the James Webb Telescope is Changing Everything

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How Birds and Dinosaurs Are Related!

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Origins of Life – How Miller-Urey Experiment Changed Everything

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The Big Space Junk Problem

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What Does a Calorie Really Mean?

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The Cool Science of Glaciers! With Neosha Narayanan

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Mitochondria – It’s Not What You Think!

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Viewing the Surface of the North Star! With Dr. Gail Schaefer

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The Perseids Meteor Shower 2024 – How To Watch and More!

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What Caused The Hydrothermal Explosion at Yellowstone?

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How Heavy is the Air?

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How Do Space Telescopes Work? 2nd Anniversary of James Webb Telescope

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The Science of Soft Matter! Squishy Physics With Dr. Eric Weeks

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How Do Ocean Currents Work?

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The Science Behind the Perfect Sandcastle! With Mr. David Meer

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How Did The Moon Form? The Story of Earth’s Moon

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What’s So Special About Europa? Searching for Life on Jupiter’s Moon

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How Does Sound Travel Underwater? The Science of Sound

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Why Are Warning Lights Red? The Science of the Color Red

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Why Does The Moon Have So Many Craters?

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The Northern Lights in the South! What Happened Last Week?

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Could Jupiter Become a Star?

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Why Are Fruits Different Colors?

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Why Does Color Black Absorb Heat? The Hidden Science Behind Color and Heat

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What is Cell Therapy Manufacturing? Explained – With Mr. Keshav Shah

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All About the Total Solar Eclipse – How To Watch and More!

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Flying High Airplane Science! With Mr. Jonel Murray from Delta

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Sugarcane Waste to Sugarcrete! With Ms. Oluchukwu Okonkwo

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The Science of Color! How We See It

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How Do Things Burn? The Science of Fire

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How Does Soap Work?

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What Is Absolute Zero?

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Why Do We Forget?

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Why Do We Get Goosebumps?

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What Are Gravitational Waves? With Dr. Zoheyr Doctor

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Is It Really a New Year? According to Science

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Why Are Earthquakes So Hard To Predict? With Dr. Ramon Arrowsmith

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It’s Cold! Why Didn’t It Snow?

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How Can We Build Wildfire Resilient Houses? With Dr. Michele Barbato

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What If Volcanoes Didn't Exist? With Dr. Amanda Clarke

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Could You Outrun a Tsunami?

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Your Water Is Billions of Years Old!?

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Do Plants Get Stressed?

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Why Do Days Get Shorter in the Winter?

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Halloween Special! – “Mummified” Plants!? All About Plant Fossils

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What if Black Holes Didn’t Exist? With Dr. Christopher Carroll

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All About Gorillas! With Ms. Rhiannon Schultz

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Where Does Maple Syrup Come From?

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Why Do Birds Fly in a V Shape?

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What Makes Diamonds So Strong?

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How We’re All Made of Stardust!

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What if Coral Reefs Disappeared? With Dr. Emma Camp

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What are Shooting Stars?

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Why is There a Hurricane Season?

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Biomes – Part 3 – Aquatic Biomes!

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Biomes – Part 2 – Land Biomes!

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Biomes – Part 1 – What Are Biomes?

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Physical and Chemical Changes!

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Your Body’s Clock! Circadian Rhythm with Dr. Erin Gibson

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What Is LiDAR and How Does It Work? – With Mr. Jack Wood

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Where Does The Salt In The Ocean Come From?

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All About Artificial Selection! With Dr. Ian Dworkin

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What’s The Deal With Microplastics? Why They Are Harmful To Earth

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Food Chains and Food Webs!

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For Crying Out Loud! Why Onions Make Us Cry

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Shark Talk! All About Sharks With Ms. Melissa Cristina Márquez

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Where’d You Go? All About Chameleons!

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Survival of the Fittest! Evolution with Dr. William Ratcliff

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Glow Up! How Do Creatures Make Light?

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The Largest Animal On Earth! Amazing Blue Whales

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Pollinators vs. Climate Change! With Dr. Samuel Myers

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The Toughest Animal On Earth! Microscopic Tardigrades

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All About Mysterious Black Holes!

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Flying Fish?? All About These Amazing Fish!

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All About Teeth! With Dr. Ami Desai

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Concrete! How It’s Made and Why It’s Important

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Hummingbirds! Small Birds With Flight Superpowers

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Speakers! How They Work

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The Moon! Earth’s Best Friend

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Auroras! The Greatest Light Show on Earth

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Making Oxygen on Mars! All About MOXIE with Mr. Shravan Hariharan