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Playing tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons and Dragons can be emotionally rewarding. In fact, a lot of players like to joke…

Tune in for live coverage as a new cargo ship from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) lifts off for the International Space Station.

JAXA's unpiloted HTV X-1 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 8:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday, Oct. 25 (0000 Oct. 26…

Humans have been using fire for over a million years but it’s hard to prove that ancient cultures knew how to start a fire from scratch. Now there’s new evid...

Is there a best sleep position? Dig into how sleeping on your side, back, or stomach can impact your body and health.

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Sleep positions go by countless creative names— the zombie, mountain climber, free faller, soldier, and more. Yet sleep experts typically…

When people work together, they can achieve great things. But if they can’t talk, they’re not necessarily smarter than ants, at least according to a study pu...

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Humanity loves bubbles. They're not only fun to play with, they're practical. Science has found a bunch of different uses for bubbles, from studying the subatomic nature of reality…

Watch the video version of our latest podcast with the 2025 Christmas Lecturer, Dr Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock. Discover more about space science and this year's exciting lectures!

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You've probably heard the claim that there's a link between acetaminophen aka Tylenol and autism. And there are a lot of conflicting takes about what that claim means, which research is “right”, and what different studies really show. So here’s some of the…

Did you know that animals use an inbuilt magnetic sense to navigate our world? But human activity is affecting this ability. Find out how this sense works and how this can be measured.

This is part of our series of videos with the National Physical Laboratory…

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim recaps his eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station. After logging 245 days aboard the orbital laboratory, Kim returned to Earth on Dec. 9, 2025. During his mission, he contributed to a wide range of scientific investigations…

Every few minutes, a dragonfly dives into water and takes off again, turning several forward somersaults as it ascends, a team of biomechanists reported earl...

How do bacteria from Earth behave in space, and what challenges do they pose for long-term space travel? 🦠Huge thanks to our friends at the National Space C...

A new hydrogel is an effective adhesive even on wet surfaces, opening up the way for its use in surgery and underwater repair.Researchers developed the hydro...

A new video has captured a lone female wolf pulling crab traps out of the water, but does it count as tool use? Read more: https://scim.ag/4oYrTXPCREDITS: (F...

Check out Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe by Carl Zimmer at https://bookshop.org/lists/scishow-recommended-reading. This video was made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. To learn more, head to https://sloan.org/programs/public…

People have been trying to prevent the spread of infectious disease forever, yet we only got germ theory in the 19th century. Except for one 16th century Ita...

One planet, one minute ⏱️We can't wait for the 2025 Christmas Lectures, supported by @cgi_uk, to take us into outer space 🚀 But first, let's begin with our ...

Explore what we know about seasonal affective disorder (SAD), and find out the best way to treat these behavioral changes.

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As winter approaches, shorter days spark a cascade of changes within the brains of animals. As a result, groundhogs retreat to…

This is a new type of parachute designed using the principles of kirigami – the art of transforming paper into 3D designs with cuts and folds. It starts as a...

What Dinosaurs, Pyramids, and the Atomic Bomb Have in Common - Inspired by Collisions video: Check out Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs, by Alec Nevala-Lee at https://bookshop.org/lists/scishow-recommended-reading.…