Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, says we could expedite Earth’s colonization of Mars by nuking the Red Planet. Musk’s point is to make Mars habitable really quickly by nuking its poles. “The idea is the bombs would be a quick way to to terraform Mars, in other words, make the planet capable of supporting human life,” Hank Green says. Green explains in this edition of SciShow.
ARVE error: need id and provider
Stunningly, biologists are developing a method to create artificial life with DNA that was put together by downloading information from the Internet. SciShow host Hank Green says, “In a sense, it’s the first living thing on the planet with a computer for a parent.” Check out the video as Green presents the elaborate details.
ARVE error: need id and provider
SciShow host Hank Green explores a newly identified neurological condition, aphantasia, the inability to visualize things in your imagination, and gives tribute to Dr. Oliver Sacks, popular explorer of the human mind.
ARVE error: need id and provider
After more than a century of observation and seven spacecrafts, people continue to see weird things on the planet Mars. Case in point was a recent photo sent our way by the Curiosity rover that appeared to show a woman standing near the edge of a Martian escarpment. Turned out to be a visual aberration, of course, but why are we seeing things that aren’t there? Rest easy, folks, it’s only pareidolia, the tendency humans have to perceive familiar images, especially faces, where none exist. Hank Green fills us in on the juicy details in this edition of SciShow.
ARVE error: need id and provider
Scientists have debated for decades whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded creatures or cold-blooded killers. Host Michael Aranda says that it turns out dinos were somewhere in the middle. He helps solve the metabolism puzzle for these magnificent creatures in this edition of SciShow.
ARVE error: need id and provider
GMOs–genetically modified organisms–are everywhere in the universe, but are they bad for us? “They aren’t,” Hank Green says resolutely. “They just aren’t, not intrinsically, and certainly not for your health.” Green explains we’ve been eating GMOs for decades with no ill effects as he further elaborates on the process in this edition of SciShow.
ARVE error: need id and provider
SciShow’s Hank Green tells us that uploading our brains might one day let us cheat death. Create an expanded lifetime, so to speak. The technology is a long way off, but researchers continue to close the gap. Green explains.
ARVE error: need id and provider
After billions of dollars and years of research, why haven’t we found a cure for cancer? SciShow host Hank Green opines, “If every tumor worked the same, we would probably by now have that magic bullet that we need. The trouble is, cancers may look the same on the outside but each one develops differently in their own way and can originate in any type of tissue.” But Green says there’s still hope for progress beyond the traditional chemotherapy and radiation methods.
ARVE error: need id and provider
Popular music has evolved in the last 50 years in ways that would make Darwin proud. To document the evolution of popular music, researchers from both the biology and music genres analyzed the songs on the Hot Billboard 100 from 1960 to 2010. Their theory was that like life, culture evolves. Host Michael Aranda divulges the surprising results of the study and also takes a look at how sleep-walking and sleep terrors are genetically linked in this edition of SciShow.
ARVE error: need id and provider
It’s estimated that 40 percent of the world’s population suffers from allergies. Translation: Once spring has sprung, look out for watery eyes, sneezing and trouble breathing. Host Michael Silva educates us on allergies and their causes, and whether they can be prevented in this edition of SciShow.
ARVE error: need id and provider
