Filmmaker Jan van IJken's Becoming reveals the fascinating genesis of animal life. A single cell is transformed into a complete, complex living organism with a beating heart and running bloodstream. Observe... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 495 views • 6:43

YouTube description: A new technique is allowing researchers to study the inner workings of a cuttlefish brain by tracking colour changing cells in their skin. These cell are directly controlled by... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 weeks ago • 462 views • 6:19

YouTube description: Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean… Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 606 views • 8:27

YouTube description: These are the molecular machines inside your body that make cell division possible. Animation by Drew Berry at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. http://wehi.tv ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years ago • 1,063 views • 6:21

YouTube description: This is how we go from single cells to people. EVO-DEVO Huxley B. Mac. Oh Carroll, Carroll Gould, Stephen Jay yeah D-D-D-D-Davidson and Peter See One cell divide and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 923 views • 4:46

YouTube description: You may think of single-celled organisms as being microscopically small, but these ocean dwellers are a little heftier than that. Hosted by: Hank Green... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 219 views • 3:27

YouTube: For some people, fava beans can be deadly. What is it about this little legume that makes it so?

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months ago • 244 views • 4:27

The Connectome is a comprehensive diagram of all the neural connections existing in the brain. WIRED has challenged neuroscientist Bobby Kasthuri to explain this scientific concept to 5 different people;... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,698 views • 9:43

Not in my case ... YouTube: Okay- you lost weight, but what actually happened to those fat-storing cells?

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 22 views • 2:30

Published on Nov 6, 2016 Urine is mainly water (at least 95 percent), but the rest is a surprisingly complicated brew of components that include urea, chloride, sodium, potassium, creatinine and other... continue reading

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YouTube description: Foraminifera – tiny, single-celled marine life forms – build gorgeous houses that record how much ice there is on the planet. Special thanks to Professor Lee Kump of Penn... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 489 views • 2:51

Last month I brought attention to a particularly nasty product currently promoted online to vulnerable people as a cancer cure. Black salve is a paste made from a mixture of Bloodroot extract and zinc... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 330 views • 8:10

YouTube: Kids are weird. They eat mud, talk to bugs, and stick things up their noses... but the changes kids go through as they grown out of infancy and into childhood are even weirder!

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 25 views • 9:07

YouTube: The world has a lot to thank Henrietta Lacks for, and yet many do not know what she has contributed. From helping to create the polio vaccine to the study of radiation, Henrietta and her HeLa... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 20 views • 4:42

So. Are you your body? And if so, how exactly does this work? Lets explore lots of confusing questions. -yt Watch CGPs - You Are Two http://videosift.com/video/CGP-Grey-You-Are-Two-Brains

posted by eric3579 8 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,202 views • 6:28

I recently learned about this first hand!

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 2,408 views • 2:11

YouTube: When Neil deGrasse Tyson and Steven Tyler were both guests on The Late Show, they took some time backstage to discuss relativity and how cell phones work.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 10 months ago • 200 views • 5:06

Sacks of Water, prepare to have your minds blown. From YouTube: "Does water have a fourth phase, beyond solid, liquid and vapor? University of Washington Bioengineering Professor Gerald Pollack... continue reading

posted by chicchorea 8 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,037 views • 24:15