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Coral reef fish get away with being colorful thanks to a weird quirk of underwater optics.

In 1990, fossil collectors in South Dakota stumbled across a dinosaur that turned out to be a really big deal. Not just because it was a T.

The Acheulean handaxe was the most common tool of early humans, but we still don’t know what the heck they used it for.

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This video was made in partnership with Gates Ventures. Energy use can be confusing – I mean, how do you compare gasoline in your car to electricity piped to your house?

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To learn more about the research behind this video, visit Peter Kennedy's lab at cbs.umn.edu/kennedy-lab Two mushroom guilds with vastly different strategies are locked in competition for

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Some plants can drink water from the air - and that has some weird effects on the forests where they live.

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