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: The Closest Black Hole Isn't as Far as You'd Like

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Download Opera here: https://opr.as/Opera-browser-scishow Where is the closest black hole to Earth? Well, they're pretty hard to find, so the record-holder keeps getting updated. Currently, it's an unassuming black hole called Gaia BH1. But research has hinted at several black holes that might be 10x closer. 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, J. Copen, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Jaap Westera, Rizwan Kassim, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, Christoph Schwanke, 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-1vS6B91Whos-z-BlYod_eEUGOW8t2HdhkqBiv_35dRVQHwtDGOYMKvmtA3LtrcT95EVlhV85Og1R6MQv/pub

Published: 26th Jul 2024 05:00:01   By: SciShow

Science News Video: Why Beaches Need More Sand

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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. Adding sand to beaches sounds like it's an oxymoronic thing to do, but it's totally a thing. And there's some major benefits, like protecting our coastlines from storms and conserving ecosystems. But there are also some major drawbacks, and the practice of beach nourishment can end up harming the same ecosystems we want to help. So the question is, is it worth it to dump more sand onto our beaches? 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, J. Copen, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Jaap Westera, Rizwan Kassim, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, Christoph Schwanke, 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/1p7lmfkXIoM0KBJXM0YsaDWYgIps-_a5_Jn80adm_1Rw/edit?usp=sharing

Published: 25th Jul 2024 05:00:05   By: SciShow

Science News Video: The Real Reason the Sky is Blue

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If someone (say, a small child) asks you why the sky is blue, you might dive into an explanation of Rayleigh scattering. But if you want to give them a way cooler explanation, you can tell them it's because of bacteria. 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, J. Copen, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Jaap Westera, Rizwan Kassim, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, Christoph Schwanke, 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-1vRrRUf_TrXfA6fXI7Vju1y_rPhwCEyG7oLS_GkXULIqoPpLvuQiP5qHWOjxdHVZKbX-hKS-5M_4iNk-/pub

Published: 24th Jul 2024 05:00:03   By: SciShow

Science News Video: How Baboons Led Us to a Lost Civilization

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This video was sponsored by Good Good Good. Go to https://www.goodgoodgood.co/goodnewspaper/complexly?via=scishow to get your first Goodnewspaper for just $5 and can cancel any time. Everyone knows where Punt is, right? The Ancient Egyptians sure did — they traded with them for millennia. But apparently they were *so* familiar with its location, they never bothered to write it down for posterity. So archaeologists have been trying to find Punt for over a century...and they may have finally done it. 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, J. Copen, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Jaap Westera, Rizwan Kassim, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, Christoph Schwanke, 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-1vSkVhx0FI0por35iSInhfaAlqjo04d6fw-I8FcXX2p_YtqynTwSvY8Md1JpJhxwfDHpKolEXQbRKVYR/pub

Published: 23rd Jul 2024 05:00:22   By: SciShow

Science News Video: What Time Is It on the Moon?

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This video was sponsored by Good Good Good. Go to https://www.goodgoodgood.co/goodnewspaper/complexly?via=scishow to get your first Goodnewspaper for just $5 and can cancel any time. If all goes well, we'll be sending astronauts back to the Moon in just a couple of years. And scientists have a lot to figure out before then, including the answer to a seemingly simple question: What time is it up there? Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- 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, J. Copen, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Jaap Westera, Rizwan Kassim, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, Christoph Schwanke, 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-1vSM68TWZDaLBvOoclqcJwEtNTyjc8fdS7ugFYZhxrDym6VROwpt7_Yl6Nutc-n5Q6TlrKCk4YKsWUZO/pub

Published: 20th Jul 2024 05:00:06   By: SciShow

Science News Video: Prepping a piece of woolly mammoth skin to peer at its DNA | Science News

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Researchers Valerii Plotnikov and Dan Fisher slice a sample from 52,000-year-old mammoth skin. The skin provided the first ever look at the 3-D structure of the extinct animal’s DNA. It was so well-preserved that researchers could tell which genes were active at the time of the animal’s death and which were turned off. Those clues may help scientists learn how extinct animals functioned, not just what they looked like. Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/drying-woolly-mammoth-dna-3d-glass Video: M. Sandoval-Velasco et al/Cell 2024

Published: 11th Jul 2024 03:01:10   By: Science News

Science News Video: Age decreases the size of our eyes’ pupils | Science News

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Caption: A video display of 64 eyeballs, captured using eye trackers, helped researchers compare the size of younger and older study participants’ pupils under differing light conditions, confirming aging affects our eyes. Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bizarre-video-eyeballs-age Video: R. Lazar et al/Royal Society Open Science 2024

Published: 2nd Jul 2024 02:58:50   By: Science News

Science News Video: Watch these protists extend their "necks" as they scout for food | Science News

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Single-celled Lacrymaria olor rapidly shoot out long projections in their search for food. A new study shows that this “neck” has an origami-like structure made of curved creases that give the organism enough cellular material to quickly extend and retract. Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/protist-neck-origami-unfold-lacrymaria Video: Ryuji Yanase

Published: 6th Jun 2024 06:04:58   By: Science News

Science News Video: Watch Lacrymaria olor’s neck extend | Science News

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Curved origami-like pleats make it possible for the single-celled protist Lacrymaria olor to extend its neck up to 30 times its body length in less than 30 seconds. Using glass needles, researchers in this video stretch the organism’s neck to about a tenth of its capability. L. olor’s body twists as the neck unspools. Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/protist-neck-origami-unfold-lacrymaria Video: Eliott Flaum/Prakash Lab

Published: 6th Jun 2024 06:04:53   By: Science News

Science News Video: Robots play soccer with reinforcement learning | Science News

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Two small, humanoid robots play soccer after being trained with reinforcement learning. The AI tool helps the robots to be more agile and resilient compared with traditional computer programming, according to a recent study. Read more: Video: Tuomas Haarnoja

Published: 6th Jun 2024 04:57:07   By: Science News

Science Channel Video: Sleepytime Essentials | How It's Made | Science Channel

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We're not falling asleep, you are! Chapters: 00:00 Pillows - Originally aired 2014 04:59 Slippers - Originally aired 2012 09:59 Lavender Oil - Originally aired 2013 14:59 Waterbeds - Originally aired 2011 19:59 Mattresses - Originally aired 2005 25:33 Mattress Pads - 2014 30:33 Duvets - Originally aired 2008 35:33 Chocolate Chip Cookies - Originally aired 40:32 Tea Lights & Jar Candles - Originally aired 2018 45:25 Sleeper Rigs - Originally aired 2018 50:27 Wall Beds - Originally aired 2017 55:34 Adjustable Beds - Originally aired 2009 1:00:34 Innerspring Mattresses - Originally aired 2018 #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: 26th Jul 2024 03:00:05   By: Science Channel

Science Channel Video: How Yachts, Paddle Boats, Boat Propellers & More Are Made! | How It’s Made | Science Channel

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Discover how fiberglass boats outlast wooden ones and how boat propellers are made using wax pellets. Learn about the smooth ride of paddle boats, the luxury of meticulously crafted yachts, and the importance of radar mounts in harsh conditions. #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 How Yachts, Paddle Boats, Boat Propellers & More Are Made! | How It’s Made | Science Channel https://youtu.be/XZowyV1YXnw

Published: 25th Jul 2024 07:06:23   By: Science Channel

Science Channel Video: What Remains of the 1984 Winter Olympics | Mysteries of the Abandoned | Science Channel

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A curving network of concrete channels lay abandoned in a snow-covered woodland in Sarajevo. #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: 24th Jul 2024 03:00:42   By: Science Channel

Science Channel Video: Decoding Ancient Roman Tablets | Unearthed | Science Channel

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Published: 23rd Jul 2024 03:00:13   By: Science Channel

Science Channel Video: The Puzzling Natures of Neptune and Uranus | How the Universe Works | Science Channel

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Given their size and material compositions, Neptune and Uranus occupy unusual spots in our solar system-- how did they get there? #ScienceChannel #HowTheUniverseWorks About How the Universe Works: With a cast of experts and eye-popping CGI, we're looking under the celestial hood to tell the greatest story of all -- the story of where we and everything else came from. 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: 22nd Jul 2024 03:00:09   By: Science Channel