Unexplainable
By Vox
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Subscribers: 4078
Reviews: 13
Episodes: 201
Apr 27, 2025
2bepainted
Dec 26, 2024
Deepz64
Dec 11, 2024
a very good science podcast
Reed
Oct 31, 2024
Chris
Apr 17, 2024
I liked it more earlier on when there wasn't long clusters of the same or similar topics. In the present form if you're not into the theme you basically have nothing of interest for months.
ahmad
Jan 11, 2023
Interesting topics and well researched. My problem is with way it is curated. The frequent shift of interlocutors back and forth makes it hard to follow at times.
George Datseris
Dec 8, 2022
An exceptionally good scientific podcast. As a researcher of 7+ years, I am astonished about the accessible presentation yet highly accurate scientific content. The podcast quality is also very high, with audio and interviews.
2bepainted
Nov 20, 2022
Very good!
Apr 20, 2022
Amy
Jan 2, 2022
excellent science podcast
P
May 31, 2021
A great show! Exploring what we're yet to find out about our world is exciting. I like that it's a mix of topics from many disciplines : astronomy, human biology, geology,...
Masood
Apr 2, 2021
Just started listening to PodCasts. The channel has become my favourite subscription - love driving to work listening to these unexplainable mysteries Love how engaging it is with just enough detail & research to explain the unexplainable
Masood
Apr 2, 2021
Just started listening to PodCasts. The channel has become my favourite subscription - love driving to work listening to these unexplainable mysteries
Love how engaging it is with just enough detail & research to explain the unexplainable
Description
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An imaginary planet that feels extremely real
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May 12, 2025 |
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The view from inside a volcano
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May 07, 2025 |
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Who are you calling a Neanderthal?
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May 05, 2025 |
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Sorry, we left an implant in your brain
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Blood farm
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Moon genes
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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How to stop your hiccups
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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A new way to listen
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Intraterrestrials
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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How to talk to aliens
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Good Robot #4: Who, me?
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Good Robot #3: Let’s fix everything
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Good Robot #2: Everything is not awesome
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Good Robot #1: The magic intelligence in the sky
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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A strange signal from space
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Getting malaria on purpose
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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The problem with dreams
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Is science in danger?
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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How umami blew up taste
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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What’s hiding under the Antarctic ice?
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Biopiracy
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Will AI ever ... feel?
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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New year, new diet, live forever?
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Mysteries we can’t stop thinking about
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Who let the wolves in?
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Where to meet a Neanderthal
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Pinky and the (lab-grown) Brain
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Why are there lefties and righties?
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Placebos work. Why?
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Why is horror so fun?
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Are psychedelics breaking science?
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Your gut’s feelings
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Is insurance doomed?
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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My animal heart
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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How hot could the world get?
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Should you be eating poison oak?
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Dark oxygen could rewrite Earth’s history
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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You're lost in the wilderness. Now what?
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Viral dark matter
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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The good virus
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Ecstasy therapy
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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What did dinosaurs sound like?
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Do we live inside an enormous black hole?
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Is good posture actually good?
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Why do we yawn?
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Embracing economic chaos
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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We still don’t really know how inflation works
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Can you put a price on nature?
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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The deepest spot in the ocean
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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What’s the tallest mountain in the world?
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Did trees kill the world?
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May 22, 2024 |
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Can we stop aging?
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May 15, 2024 |
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Who's the daddy? There isn't one.
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May 08, 2024 |
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Itch hunt
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May 01, 2024 |
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How did Earth get its water?
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Is Earth alive?
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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The alpha myth
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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The eclipse chasers
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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The Yips
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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The bleeding edge, part two
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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The bleeding edge
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Aliens from Earth?
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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How scientists are searching for aliens
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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A universal virus-killer?
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Why do we cry?
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Should you quit Diet Coke?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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The case for cursing
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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The math problem that could break the internet
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Garbage patch kids
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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A stethoscope for the rainforest
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Something weird near the beginning of time
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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The tallest mountains on Earth are ... underground?
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Weaponizing uncertainty
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Can we live in space?
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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The ice cream effect
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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The data vigilantes
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Trouble on Pickles Reef
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Redefining death
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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The Orcanizing
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Unexplainable or Not with Wyatt Cenac
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Rogue waves
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Does garlic break magnets?
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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How to decode a thought
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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It’s getting harder to see
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Jumping the gun
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Can we talk to animals?
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Unexplainable or Not: Beach day!
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Who let the wolves in?
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Why do we have a moon?
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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The Black Box: In AI we trust?
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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The Black Box: Even AI’s creators don’t understand it
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Do animals grieve?
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Why do we dream?
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Cracking the Indus code
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Awestruck
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Expecting: Weed and pregnancy
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May 24, 2023 |
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Expecting: Baby brain
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May 17, 2023 |
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Expecting: Pregnancy souvenirs
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May 10, 2023 |
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The tornado problem
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May 03, 2023 |
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How to resurrect a mammoth
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Live show, dead dinosaurs
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Talking trees
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Your questions, unexplained
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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What's so funny?
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Origins: The meaning of “life”
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Origins: The first living thing
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Origins: How did Earth get its water?
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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What is love?
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Why we hiccup
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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We booped an asteroid
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Your creepy, crawly roommates
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Plants with eyes?
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Unexplainable or Not: Bikes, planes, ice skates
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Your gut's feelings
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Nuclear fusion breaks through
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Basic instinct
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Why we cry
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Can we live in space?
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Holding on to power
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Redefining death
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Talking to ghosts
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Why is everyone getting food allergies?
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Introducing The Gray Area
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Let’s play Unexplainable or Not
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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The math problem that could break the internet
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Jumping the gun
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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An Alzheimer's uproar
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Salamander search party
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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What did dinosaurs sound like?
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Can ovaries make new eggs?
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Will the eel (slim, shady) please have sex?
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Yawn baby yawn
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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What’s the James Webb telescope searching for?
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Vitamin X
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Lost Worlds: What killed Venus?
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Lost Worlds: Life on Mars?
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Lost Worlds: Why do we have a moon?
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Lost Worlds: Aliens from Earth?
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Dropping like flies
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May 25, 2022 |
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Is telepathy real?
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May 18, 2022 |
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Why do we dream?
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May 11, 2022 |
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Should I take a DNA ancestry test?
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May 04, 2022 |
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My octopus friend?
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Glow in the dark ocean
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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When reality broke
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Making Sense: The sixth sense
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Making Sense: Sight unseen
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Making Sense: The Umami Mama
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Making Sense: No one nose
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Making Sense: The healing power of touch
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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The methane hunters
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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What is love?
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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A sonic tour of the solar system
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Finding asteroids before they find us
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Skeleton Lake
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Are humans running out of sperm?
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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The quest to build a star
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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BONUS: The 2021 song
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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The building blocks of the universe
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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99% of ocean plastic is missing
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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How medicine mansplained women’s health
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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How Venus went to hell
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Mind readers
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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A brainless yellow goo that does math
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Why whales get beached
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Talking to ghosts
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Honey, we shrunk the birds
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Nobel Prize 2.0
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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The James Webb Time Machine
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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The James Webb Space Telescope
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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What causes Alzheimer’s?
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Havana syndrome
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Getting to the bottom of butts
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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The mysteries of endometriosis
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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A 150-year-old human
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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How low can you go?
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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The tornado problem
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Moon poop
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Hot pink flying squirrels
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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How do animals know where to go?
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Invasion of the jumping worms
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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The many heights of Mount Everest
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Unexplainable Flying Objects
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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The hunt for a new Pluto
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May 26, 2021 |
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Cloudy with a chance of chaos
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May 19, 2021 |
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A new force of nature?
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May 12, 2021 |
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Placebos work. Why?
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May 05, 2021 |
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A virus that could heal people
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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The Twilight Zone of the ocean
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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The viral ghosts of long Covid
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Is a ton of psychology just ... wrong?
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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It’s ball lightning!
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Skeleton Lake
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Journey Toward the Center of the Earth
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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No one nose
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Most of the universe is missing
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Introducing Unexplainable
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Feb 19, 2021 |