SciShow - Season 5 / Year 2015

Season 5 / Year 2015

Episodes

4 Weird Lab Animals

Why are we Ticklish?

The Disappearing Monarch and the Oldest Mammal on Earth

Oklo, the Two Billion Year Old Nuclear Reactor

When You Burn Fat, Where Does it Go?

Dual-Sex Butterfly and the Risks of ... Oxygen

SciShow Talk Show: The Mice of Riddle Place & Bindi the Bearded Dragon

Who Will Survive The 6th Mass Extinction?

Why Can We See Our Breath In The Cold?

The 5 Most Important Molecules in Your Body

Ecstasy in Rivers and The World's First Geological Map

Will We Ever Run Out of Dinosaurs?

Why Do We Have Baby Teeth?

The Science of Sugar Addiction & The Fifth Taste

SciShow Talk Show: Animal Weapons with Doug Emlen & A Southern Three-Banded Armadillo

Sea Star Wars

Why Are Eggs ... Egg-Shaped?

Music in Your DNA and A New Species of Human?

The Worst Nobel Prize Ever Awarded

Plasma, The Most Common Phase of Matter in the Universe

How Did a Magnet Just Break My Monitor?

How Measles Made a Comeback

The Leidenfrost Effect: How to Make a Liquid Levitate

Why Is My Tongue Stuck to This Flagpole?

The Science of Anti-Vaccination

Animals Getting Bigger, and How Cannabis Causes Hunger

Why Do Koalas Hug Trees?

3 Weird Things That Domestication Did to Dogs

SciShow Quiz Show with Phil Plait

The Science of That Dress

3 Strange-Looking Kinds of Clouds

Do Fish Drink Water?

A Brief History of Robotics

How to Make a Superbug, and an Even More Super-Collider!

Why Does Toothpaste Make Everything Taste Bad?

How Plants Attract Bodyguards

Genetically Engineered Cancer-Fighting Algae

Take a Trip Through Space!

Life Inside a Dead Whale

Why Do We Have Blind Spots?

How Health Affects Sperm

3 Things to Know About Cecil the Lion

Lead: The Original Artificial Sweetener

What Happens to My Wool Sweater in the Washer?

SciShow Talk Show: More about Animal Weapons with Doug Emlen & Professor Claw the Emperor Scorpion

Colorado's Bright Yellow River, and Why Fruit Flies Mate

Could Dinosaurs Have Been Warm-Blooded?

What Happens When You Faint?

5 Chemicals That Are in (Almost) Everything You Eat

Pareidolia: Why People Keep Seeing Crazy Stuff on Mars

Plants That Keep Themselves Warm

Are You a Supertaster?

SciShow Quiz Show: Why Humans Are Weird!

Meet the Machine That Barfs

How Ants Take Care of Their Farms

Why Are Flamingos Pink?

Can You Catch Cancer?

New Insights Into 'The Mind's Eye'

Creating Artificial Life

Why Don't Spiders Stick to Their Webs?

SciShow Talk Show: Dr. Jeff Good & Cas the Arctic Fox

You Can "Catch" Alzheimer's Disease

5 Things Your Nails Can Say About Your Health

Why Do Boomerangs Come Back?

Robots Inspired By Animals

Humanity's New Cousin & An Ancient Giant Virus

The Real Story of Asbestos

What Causes Pins and Needles?

SciShow Quiz Show: With WheezyWaiter!

How To Make a Digital Clock

Liquid Water on Mars

Why Is There a Magnet Inside My Dog?

Four Creatures That Glow

The Real Science of Forensics

3 Animals That Breathe Through Their Butts

Could We Destroy the Earth?

SciShow Talk Show: Jimmy Henderson & The Red Eyed Skinks

Quantum Computing Breakthrough

Did Dinosaurs Really Have Feathers?

Why Do Nuclear Bombs Make Mushroom Clouds?

Flavor Science: What's Really in a Pumpkin Spice Latte

The 2015 Nobel Prizes!

3 Terrible Old-Timey Ways to (Not) Lose Weight

Does Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold Water?

The Future Of Back To The Future

Modern Human Migration and Echolocating Eels

What Does Anesthesia Do to Your Brain?

Do Animals Cry?

SciShow Quiz Show with Phil Plait: Sperm, Whales, and Sperm Whales

Social Interaction and the 'Bliss Molecule'

How Words Get Stuck on the Tip of Your Tongue

Why Don't Sleeping Bats Fall Down

Weight Loss Pills: Fact or Fiction

Can You Really 'Train' Your Brain?

Why Can Blu-rays Hold More Than DVDs?

SciShow Talk Show: The Insectarium with Olivia Gordon

The Science of Lewy Body Dementia

Why Do Animals Lick Their Wounds?

Why Is That Song Stuck in My Head?!

Interview with EPA Administrator McCarthy

What Does Your Uvula Do?

How to Forget Things on Purpose

Strontium: It Knows Where You've Been

Why is Red Meat ... Red?

SciShow Talk Show: Jack Horner Meets a Dinosaur

Hydras: Our Immortal, Tentacled Friends

Metal vs. Bacteria

Why Do Our Noses Run in the Cold?

The Quest for Glueballs

Bananas Are Losing the War on Fungus

The Deal with Fat

Why Is Heart Cancer So Rare?

SciShow: Winter Compilation

3 Odd Facts About Ostriches

What's Causing That Stitch in Your Side?

The Nearsightedness Epidemic
While not the kind of epidemic you're used to hearing about, nearsightedness is becoming a major health issue in many places. Learn about how scientists are finding out the reasons behind the increase in myopia, and how sunlight might be an important component.
Hosted by: Michael Aranda

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