Spectacular Science
By Akshay Jayaraman
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Welcome to Spectacular Science, a science podcast for curious people! Join your host Akshay Jayaraman as he embarks on fascinating explorations into the world of science. From the mysteries of the universe to the wonders of the microscopic world, he uncovers the science all around us. Get ready for an exciting journey filled with engaging interviews with expert scientists, and mind-blowing topics that will leave you in awe. Whether it’s discovering the science behind amazing natural phenomena, discovering the forces that shape our planet, or exploring the inner workings of the human body, Spectacular Science has it all.
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The 480-Million-Year Story of the Appalachian Mountains
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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The Science of the “Aura Farming” Boat Kid – Science of Human Balance
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Why Saturn’s Losing Its Rings
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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What Are Bioengineered Food Ingredients? Revealed
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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How Volcanoes on Mars Could Have Supported Life
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May 20, 2025 |
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How Your Phone’s Battery Works
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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How Microplastics Might Be In Our Water
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Why We Still Have Tailbones
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Are We Really 50% Genetically Related to Bananas?
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Why The Moon is Slowly Moving Away
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Will Asteroid 2024 YR4 Hit Earth?
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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How AI is Consuming So Much Water – Explained
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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200th Episode of Spectacular Science! – Exercise and the Brain with Dr. Charles Hillman
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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What is an Infinity Mirror? Explained!
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Why Triangles Are Such a Strong Shape
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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The Truth About Pesticides – With Dr. Changmou Xu
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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The 3 Types of Heat Transfer – Explained!
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Titan – Studying Saturn’s Mysterious Moon with Dr. Lauren Schurmeier
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Why Green Means Go – The Science of Traffic Lights
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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How the James Webb Telescope is Changing Everything
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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How Birds and Dinosaurs Are Related!
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Origins of Life – How Miller-Urey Experiment Changed Everything
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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The Big Space Junk Problem
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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What Does a Calorie Really Mean?
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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The Cool Science of Glaciers! With Neosha Narayanan
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Mitochondria – It’s Not What You Think!
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Viewing the Surface of the North Star! With Dr. Gail Schaefer
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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The Perseids Meteor Shower 2024 – How To Watch and More!
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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What Caused The Hydrothermal Explosion at Yellowstone?
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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How Heavy is the Air?
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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How Do Space Telescopes Work? 2nd Anniversary of James Webb Telescope
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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The Science of Soft Matter! Squishy Physics With Dr. Eric Weeks
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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How Do Ocean Currents Work?
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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The Science Behind the Perfect Sandcastle! With Mr. David Meer
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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How Did The Moon Form? The Story of Earth’s Moon
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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What’s So Special About Europa? Searching for Life on Jupiter’s Moon
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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How Does Sound Travel Underwater? The Science of Sound
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Why Are Warning Lights Red? The Science of the Color Red
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May 28, 2024 |
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Why Does The Moon Have So Many Craters?
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May 22, 2024 |
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The Northern Lights in the South! What Happened Last Week?
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May 15, 2024 |
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Could Jupiter Become a Star?
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May 08, 2024 |
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Why Are Fruits Different Colors?
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May 01, 2024 |
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Why Does Color Black Absorb Heat? The Hidden Science Behind Color and Heat
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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What is Cell Therapy Manufacturing? Explained – With Mr. Keshav Shah
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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All About the Total Solar Eclipse – How To Watch and More!
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Flying High Airplane Science! With Mr. Jonel Murray from Delta
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Sugarcane Waste to Sugarcrete! With Ms. Oluchukwu Okonkwo
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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The Science of Color! How We See It
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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How Do Things Burn? The Science of Fire
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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How Does Soap Work?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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What Is Absolute Zero?
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Why Do We Forget?
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Why Do We Get Goosebumps?
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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What Are Gravitational Waves? With Dr. Zoheyr Doctor
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Is It Really a New Year? According to Science
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Why Are Earthquakes So Hard To Predict? With Dr. Ramon Arrowsmith
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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It’s Cold! Why Didn’t It Snow?
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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How Can We Build Wildfire Resilient Houses? With Dr. Michele Barbato
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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What If Volcanoes Didn't Exist? With Dr. Amanda Clarke
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Could You Outrun a Tsunami?
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Your Water Is Billions of Years Old!?
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Do Plants Get Stressed?
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Why Do Days Get Shorter in the Winter?
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Halloween Special! – “Mummified” Plants!? All About Plant Fossils
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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What if Black Holes Didn’t Exist? With Dr. Christopher Carroll
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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All About Gorillas! With Ms. Rhiannon Schultz
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Where Does Maple Syrup Come From?
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Why Do Birds Fly in a V Shape?
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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What Makes Diamonds So Strong?
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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How We’re All Made of Stardust!
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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What if Coral Reefs Disappeared? With Dr. Emma Camp
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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What are Shooting Stars?
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Why is There a Hurricane Season?
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Biomes – Part 3 – Aquatic Biomes!
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Biomes – Part 2 – Land Biomes!
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Biomes – Part 1 – What Are Biomes?
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Physical and Chemical Changes!
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Your Body’s Clock! Circadian Rhythm with Dr. Erin Gibson
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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What Is LiDAR and How Does It Work? – With Mr. Jack Wood
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May 30, 2023 |
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Where Does The Salt In The Ocean Come From?
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May 16, 2023 |
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All About Artificial Selection! With Dr. Ian Dworkin
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May 09, 2023 |
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What’s The Deal With Microplastics? Why They Are Harmful To Earth
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May 02, 2023 |
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Food Chains and Food Webs!
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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For Crying Out Loud! Why Onions Make Us Cry
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Shark Talk! All About Sharks With Ms. Melissa Cristina Márquez
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Where’d You Go? All About Chameleons!
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Survival of the Fittest! Evolution with Dr. William Ratcliff
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Glow Up! How Do Creatures Make Light?
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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The Largest Animal On Earth! Amazing Blue Whales
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Pollinators vs. Climate Change! With Dr. Samuel Myers
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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The Toughest Animal On Earth! Microscopic Tardigrades
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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All About Mysterious Black Holes!
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Flying Fish?? All About These Amazing Fish!
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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All About Teeth! With Dr. Ami Desai
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Concrete! How It’s Made and Why It’s Important
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Hummingbirds! Small Birds With Flight Superpowers
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Speakers! How They Work
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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The Moon! Earth’s Best Friend
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Auroras! The Greatest Light Show on Earth
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Making Oxygen on Mars! All About MOXIE with Mr. Shravan Hariharan
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Coral! The Basis For Marine Life
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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How Does The Earth Support Life?
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Where'd You Get Those Genes? All About DNA
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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The Carbon Cycle! From The Earth To Living Things
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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The Digestive System!
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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How Do We Make Energy Out Of What We Eat?
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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The Science of 5G Technologies with Mr. Lyle Paczkowski
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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The Science of Machine Learning With Mr. Dale Lane
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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How Do Cells Grow and Divide?
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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What Causes Allergies?
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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The Science of Sleep! With Dr. Leah Irish
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Diving at Super-Speed! Peregrine Falcons
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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The 100th Episode of Spectacular Science! – Music and the Brain
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Owls! Superstars of the Night
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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A Need For Speed! How Cheetahs Run So Fast
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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What Makes a Bubble Pop?
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Asteroids! Giant Pieces of Rock Floating In Space
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May 31, 2022 |
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Heat Transfer! How Heat Moves Through Things
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May 24, 2022 |
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The Secret Senses of Plants!
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May 17, 2022 |
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Solar and Lunar Eclipses!
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May 10, 2022 |
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The Human Brain! With Dr. Laura Carruth
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May 03, 2022 |
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Gravity!
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Beyond the Planets! The Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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How Do We Taste Things?
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Mountains! What They Are and How They Form
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Chilling Out With Snow!
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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How Did The Universe Form? – With Dr. Paul M. Sutter
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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142-Year-Old Seed Experiment! - With Dr. David Lowry
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Weather!
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Ocean Waves and Tides!
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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The Science of Slime!
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Skin! Our Body’s Protection
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Comets!
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Atoms and Molecules!
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Gecko-Inspired Robot! - With Dane Brouwer
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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How Do Flamingos Stand On One Leg? - With Dr. Young-Hui Chang
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Welcome to Season 4 – Light!
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Season 3 Finale! – How Do Lightbulbs Work?
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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How Are Fossils Formed?
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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How Do We Make Memories?
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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How Continents Move!
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Soap! How It Works
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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The Science of Smell with Dr. Rachel Herz!
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Hair!
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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How Do Plants Produce Food From Sunlight? All About Photosynthesis
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Wind!
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Teeny-Tiny Planets! All About Dwarf Planets
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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All About Inventions!
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Natural Resources!
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Fossil Fuels!
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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How Do We Breathe?
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Pollution!
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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The Tumble Science Podcast For Kids With Lindsay Patterson!
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Rocks!
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Minerals!
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Cells! Building Blocks of Life
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Voices! How We Make Sounds
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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The Brains On Science Podcast with Marc Sanchez!
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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The Challenges During the Pandemic
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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The Origins of the Solar System!
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Simple Machines All Around Us!
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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The Science of Science with Steve Spangler!
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Rockets and Satellites!
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Clinical Research! Testing Medications for Safety
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Clouds! Fluffy Collections of Water Droplets
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Plastic! It's Everywhere!
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Start Your Engines! How Cars Move
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Flying Machines in the Sky!
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May 25, 2021 |
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Dust, All Around Us!
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May 18, 2021 |
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Magnetism!
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May 11, 2021 |
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Go On a Trip With...Oxygen!?
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May 04, 2021 |
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The Weird and Wacky World of Water!
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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How Do We Hear Sounds?
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Soil! Can you dig it?
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Tornadoes - Massive Swirling Clouds!
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Electricity!!
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Birds – Masters of Flight!
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Moons of Planets! All About These Natural Satellites
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Pollen and Pollination!
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Weathering and Erosion! Destructive Processes That Shape Our Earth!
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Stars - Twinkling Balls of Gas!
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Microorganisms Series - Part 5 of 5!: Protozoa
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Microorganisms Series - Part 4: Algae!!
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Microorganisms Series – Part 3: Fungi!
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Microorganisms Series - Part 2: Bacteria!!
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Microorganisms Series - Part 1: Viruses!
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Volcanoes - Welcome to SEASON 2!!!!!
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Season 1 FINALE!! - Masking Up For Safety!
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Telescopes!
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Matter - It Really Matters!!
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Brain Freezeeeeeee!!!!!
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Climate Change
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Planets of the Solar System: Neptune!
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Planets of the Solar System: Uranus!
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Planets of the Solar System: Saturn!
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Planets of the Solar System: Jupiter!
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Planets of the Solar System: Mars!
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Planets of the Solar System: Earth!
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Planets of the Solar System: Venus!
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Heart Health and Keeping Your Heart Healthy!!
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Planets of the Solar System Part 1: Mercury!
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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DNA! The Stuff That Makes You, You!
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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The Immune System!
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Sleep!
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Vaccines!
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Microphones
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Thunderstorms!
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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SPECIAL EDITION!!!! COVID-19
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Yeast!
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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The Nervous System!
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Computers! Everyday Machines!
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Plants and Trees!
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Welcome to Spectacular Science!!
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Jun 01, 2020 |