Science News Video: This spider crawls like ant to avoid being eaten #science #mimicry

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This jumping spider mimics the movements of ant species in its environment to avoid being eaten. The spider’s predators, such as praying mantis, pass up anything that might be an ant to avoid the ants' painful bite. Read the story: https://www.science.org/content/article/watch-spider-crawl-ant-avoid-being-eaten

Published: 26th Jul 2024 03:00:46   By: Science Magazine

Science News Video: What makes #blueberries blue?

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Turns out blueberries don't have blue pigment. Instead, structural color from the waxy surface on blueberries gives them their signature color. Video by Sarah Crespi Footage: Middleton et al. (2024)/Science Advances Music: Nguyen Khoi Nguyen

Published: 7th Jun 2024 04:00:11   By: Science Magazine

Science News Video: After 50 years, Lucy faces rivals with other human ancestors

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In 1974, paleoanthropologist Don Johanson and student Tom Gray unearthed a 40% complete skeleton of an early human ancestor, fundamentally changing the human family tree. The specimen acquired a nickname that persisted: Lucy, after the Beatles song playing at the fossil hunter’s camp--“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” At 3.2 million years old, some thought her species, Australopithecus afarensis, was close to when the ancestor of humans had split from the ancestor of chimpanzees. But in the past 50 years, discoveries of hominins both older and the same age as Lucy have pushed that split millions of years deeper in time, and challenged her position as mother of us all. Read the story: https://www.science.org/content/article/was-lucy-mother-us-all-fifty-years-discovery-famed-skeleton-rivals

Published: 28th May 2024 05:23:04   By: Science Magazine

Science News Video: Soccer-playing robots teach themselves to score

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Developing athletic ability requires practice, even for robots. Using an approach driven by trial and error called deep reinforcement learning, researchers at DeepMind helped these soccer-playing robots develop skills, agility, and techniques to improve their play--all at a higher level than could be manually programmed. The computer “agents” controlling the robots picked up the rules and nuances of the game by observing human soccer players, then playing against each other in both simulations and using real-life robots. Robots play each other to improve their game, get computational “coaching,” and even mimic defensive moves of human players. While these athletic machines may not be making starting lineups anytime soon, computer scientists hope that this ability to learn and perform complex tasks in unpredictable environments will prove useful well beyond the soccer field. Read the research paper here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adi8022

Published: 6th May 2024 03:00:31   By: Science Magazine

Science News Video: Why are these #frogs such clumsy jumpers?

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Scientists have figured out why some miniaturized frogs from Brazil are such clumsy jumpers. A 2022 study published in Science Advances reveals that among adult vertebrates, members of the genus Brachycephalus have the smallest known semicircular canals – the part of the inner ear necessary for maintaining balance and spatial orientation. The diminutive size of these canals results in low sensitivity to angular acceleration, preventing the frogs from controlling their posture as they prepare to land. VIDEO CREDIT: RICHARD L. ESSNER, JR. LINK: https://scim.ag/6bR

Published: 3rd May 2024 03:00:44   By: Science Magazine

Science News Video: Does Microdosing Actually Work?

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There's a growing trend out there among users of hallucinogenic drugs - microdosing. The idea is to take a tiny dose of these drugs to get certain brain benefits without going all Sergeant Pepper. But does it work? Let's get into what we know and what we don't know about microdosing. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Reed Spilmann, Odditeas , Garrett Galloway, Friso, DrakoEsper , Kenny Wilson, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Jaap Westera, Rizwan Kassim, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, Matt Curls, Eric Jensen, Chris Mackey, Adam Brainard, Ash, Piya Shedden, charles george, Alex Hackman, Kevin Knupp, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRkpfeprB6chzA2lC3w3qtMCELIxdpalBZZF0AD41NyGAGHQLdwnADmFNkHd0x1pd31oSXspWyn2XCG/pub

Published: 8th Oct 2024 05:00:30   By: SciShow

Science News Video: Why They Can't Make an HIV Vaccine (They're Trying!)

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A lot of very smart people have been working for a very long time on vaccines for HIV/AIDS, and they've come up empty. Thanks to broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) and mRNA vaccine technology, that might be changing. Here's why we don't have a vaccine for HIV/AIDS yet. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Odditeas , Garrett Galloway, Friso, DrakoEsper , Kenny Wilson, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Jaap Westera, Rizwan Kassim, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, Matt Curls, Eric Jensen, Chris Mackey, Adam Brainard, Ash, You too can be a nice person, Piya Shedden, charles george, Alex Hackman, Kevin Knupp, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRX6yWs-4FZR_4ZO_-6TKvxoKG7hcLlEpOFZmHuE8hcpphwv5v51Szj4teuDPq7wf_Us7RLRA3Fn_Fi/pub

Published: 7th Oct 2024 05:00:44   By: SciShow

Science News Video: 5 Weird Ways Identical Twins Aren't Actually Identical

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JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. Identical twins may look exactly alike, but they differ in some pretty weird ways. In this List Show, we'll explore five of them. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock (she/her) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Odditeas , Garrett Galloway, Friso, DrakoEsper , Kenny Wilson, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Jaap Westera, Rizwan Kassim, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, Matt Curls, Eric Jensen, Chris Mackey, Adam Brainard, Ash, You too can be a nice person, Piya Shedden, charles george, Alex Hackman, Kevin Knupp, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT-x4aZHsNR5BY7qqSjmtbOlLbTxzG6UB8H0KBSGl0TsKT0BS0Hr82DSbokuEWm99mt8M7BdZ2RHpE9/pub

Published: 4th Oct 2024 05:00:12   By: SciShow

Science News Video: You've Never Heard of the World's Most Common Mineral

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Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. The most common substance in the world is literally IN the world. It's a mineral called bridgmanite, and it belongs to a class of minerals (called perovskites) that scientists are trying to use in the next generation of solar panels. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Odditeas , Garrett Galloway, Friso, DrakoEsper , Kenny Wilson, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Jaap Westera, Rizwan Kassim, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, Matt Curls, Eric Jensen, Chris Mackey, Adam Brainard, Ash, You too can be a nice person, Piya Shedden, charles george, Alex Hackman, Kevin Knupp, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR5mgvBn7Vxkb7yqaA-xMyuRHLnA1D24qyMTG7W1E-4HhETCyC0NZ0-l3qsJlZN8k8tPvPZcH1yy3OP/pub

Published: 3rd Oct 2024 05:00:53   By: SciShow

Science News Video: The Moon That’s 2 Moons Stuck Together

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In November 2023, NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh and made a startling discovery: not only does this small asteroid have an even smaller companion (named Selam), that companion is shaped like a two-tier snowman. It's the first example of a contact binary satellite in the solar system! Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Odditeas , Garrett Galloway, Friso, DrakoEsper , Kenny Wilson, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Jaap Westera, Rizwan Kassim, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, Matt Curls, Eric Jensen, Chris Mackey, Adam Brainard, Ash, You too can be a nice person, Piya Shedden, charles george, Alex Hackman, Kevin Knupp, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dE8Ok7rokyFnHTeccUo_jBs6OZIRrtFvqar-TeeLTEM/pub

Published: 2nd Oct 2024 05:00:15   By: SciShow

Science News Video: Take a close look at a fruit fly's neurons | Science News

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In this fruit fly brain, there are precisely two neurons called CT1 neurons that span the width of the eye. Each of these neurons makes over 140,000 synapses and uses its unique position to help the fly sense light and motion. Read more: Video: Amy Sterling, Murthy and Seung Labs/Princeton University

Published: 2nd Oct 2024 01:53:07   By: Science News

Science News Video: Watch bacteria found on our teeth rapidly divide and grow | Science News

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The filamentous bacterium Corynebacterium matruchotii, found in human dental plaque, has a superpower. It can divide into as many as 14 daughter cells at once, allowing it to rapidly expand its territory. In this video, a single cell divides into many, which also divide into many, and so on until the colony rapidly fills the field of view. Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bacteria-unique-mouth-division Video: Scott Chimileski/Marine Biological Laboratory

Published: 20th Sep 2024 03:12:28   By: Science News

Science News Video: Scientists find a long-sought electric field in Earth’s atmosphere | Science News

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This animation shows how the ambipolar electric field works. The most abundant gas in the lower atmosphere, the part we live in, is nitrogen (N2, shown around seven seconds). Pan up to the ionosphere (14 seconds), though, and you’ll find more atomic oxygen. Photons from the sun can collide with oxygen and knock one of their electrons loose, leaving a positively charged oxygen ion behind. The pull between those ions and their lost electrons is the ambipolar electric field, which ties them together. Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/electric-field-in-earths-atmosphere Video: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Published: 16th Sep 2024 04:11:43   By: Science News

Science News Video: What is agrivoltaics? | Science News

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With the recent boom in clean energy development, more and more farmers are interested in leasing their fields to solar power utilities, often forcing them to abandon traditional crop production or grazing in the process. Now researchers in the growing field of agrivoltaics hope to provide scientific insights and guidance to make it possible to produce food and power at the same time. While sheep grazing on solar farms has already demonstrated feasibility and ecological benefits, these researchers are discovering that co-locating crops and solar panels may prove to be a tough row to hoe. Credits: Production, Videography and Editing Luke Groskin Story Editing Ashley Yeager Additional Video and Stills Center for Energy Education (C.C. BY), Clean Energy Resource Teams (C.C. BY) Enel North America, Getty, Innover, Kaan Kutural/UC Davis, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, One Less Traveled By (C.C. BY), Pond 5, Sol Systems (C.C. BY), Sun’Agri Music Audio Network

Published: 16th Sep 2024 01:20:41   By: Science News

Science News Video: What is climate attribution? | Science News

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Scientists can estimate how much more likely or severe some past natural disasters were due to human-caused climate change. Here’s how. Credits: Scriptwriter - Maria Temming Story editor - Ashley Yeager Host - Maria Temming Producer - Luke Groskin Fact checker- Kyle Planz Reporter - Maria Temming Images & video - Luke Groskin Additional video and stills ESA, Getty Images, Nature Climate Change NASA, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, NOAA, Pond5, Kevin Reed, Jason Smerdon, Michael Wehner and Park Williams. Music Audio Network

Published: 11th Sep 2024 03:55:21   By: Science News

Science Channel Video: Microbial Life Found on the Surface of a Canadian Glacier | What on Earth? | Science Channel

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Published: 9th Oct 2024 03:00:10   By: Science Channel

Science Channel Video: A Secret, Depressurized Olympic Training Facility | Mysteries of the Abandoned | Science Channel

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Beneath an innocuous-looking complex is an underground training facility that holds the secret to East Germany's Cold War Olympic success. #ScienceChannel #MysteriesOfTheAbandoned About Mysteries of the Abandoned: The world's most incredible engineering projects are revisited to uncover why places full of mysteries and untold secrets are now abandoned ruins. Subscribe to Science Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@sciencechannel About Science Channel: Learn about outer space, leading scientific exploration, new technology, earth science basics, & more with science videos & news from Science Channel. Find us on social: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScienceChannel/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sciencechannel Instagram: https://instagram.com/sciencechannel TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@sciencechannel

Published: 8th Oct 2024 03:00:48   By: Science Channel

Science Channel Video: Shaping Forks & Spoons | How It's Made | Science Channel

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Published: 5th Oct 2024 03:00:34   By: Science Channel

Science Channel Video: Bundt Pans, Cutlery, & Other Kitchen Items | How It's Made | Science Channel

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Bundt, please! Chapters 00:00 Bundt Pans - Originally aired 2012 05:00 Induction Cooktops - Originally aired 2008 10:00 Kitchen Knives - Originally aired 2006 15:00 Panettone - Originally aired 2018 19:40 Pressure Cookers - Originally aired 2009 24:39 Silver-Plated Teapots - Originally aired 2007 29:35 Silver Cutlery - Originally aired 2007 34:35 Frying Pans - Originally aired 2014 39:35 Wooden Utensils - Originally aired 2016 #ScienceChannel #HowItsMade About How It's Made: Explore the fascinating world of how everyday items are manufactured and produced. Subscribe to Science Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@sciencechannel About Science Channel: Learn about outer space, leading scientific exploration, new technology, earth science basics, & more with science videos & news from Science Channel. Find us on social: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScienceChannel/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sciencechannel Instagram: https://instagram.com/sciencechannel TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@sciencechannel

Published: 4th Oct 2024 10:01:29   By: Science Channel

Science Channel Video: Uncovering the Power Source Behind Stars and Supernovae | Space's Deepest Secrets | Science Channel

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Scattered across the night sky in immense numbers are the alchemists of our cosmos: the stars. They forge new elements inside their raging nuclear core and cast them out in cataclysmic supernova explosions. But could the life and death of the most extreme stars in the cosmos be key to understanding our very existence? #ScienceChannel #SpacesDeepestSecrets About Space's Deepest Secrets A few generations ago, traveling to the Moon was hard to imagine, and going beyond the Moon was a pipe dream. Today there is a new breed of explorer, tasked with going deep into space to unlock and reveal first-ever views of alien worlds and cosmic bodies far beyond anyone's imagination. These men and women have pushed their ingenuity and curiosity beyond the limits to uncover some of the most-groundbreaking findings in the history of space exploration. Subscribe to Science Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@sciencechannel About Science Channel: Learn about outer space, leading scientific exploration, new technology, earth science basics, & more with science videos & news from Science Channel. Find us on social: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScienceChannel/

Published: 3rd Oct 2024 10:00:14   By: Science Channel