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Matt Walker
How sleep affects your emotions
5:07
Matt Walker
What's the connection between sleep and Alzheimer's disease?
4:45
Mike Gil
The big-beaked, rock-munching fish that protect coral reefs
5:09
Fabio Pacucci
Newton's three-body problem explained
4:42
Matt Walker
Hacking your memory -- with sleep
5:42
Lucy Cooke
No one can figure out how eels have sex
4:21
Gareth Gaskell
How do our brains process speech?
4:54
Matt Walker
How caffeine and alcohol affect your sleep
4:47
Matt Walker
A walk through the stages of sleep
5:10
Steven Anderson
What makes volcanoes erupt?
7:00
MIT School of Science
On the same wavelength
12:51
MIT School of Science
The sound of gravity
30:15
David Brenner
Can light stop the coronavirus?
9:16
Mandë Holford
The power of venom -- and how it could one day save your life
43:07
Bill Gates
How the pandemic will shape the near future
56:45
Al Gore
The new urgency of climate change
6:39
David Gruber
Can we learn to talk to sperm whales?
5:11
Anees Bahji
Can steroids save your life?
18:34
Nir Eyal
The case to infect volunteers with COVID-19 to accelerate vaccine testing
23:32
Jerome Kim
The trials, tribulations and timeline of a COVID-19 vaccine
5:32
Dan Kwartler
How fast can a vaccine be made?
7:27
Andrew Pelling
Could we treat spinal cord injuries with asparagus?
10:58
Christina Agapakis
What happens when biology becomes technology?
6:21
Prosanta Chakrabarty
What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry?
5:35
Alex Rosenthal
When is a pandemic over?
5:56
Ariel Waldman
The invisible life hidden beneath Antarctica's ice
19:36
Michael Levin
The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life
4:44
Cella Wright
How do you know if you have a virus?
4:55
Elizabeth Cox
What is a coronavirus?
8:19
Mike Davis
What causes opioid addiction, and why is it so tough to combat?
18:28
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Meet Moo Stricker
5:36
Alex Rosenthal and Pall Thordarson
Which is better: Soap or hand sanitizer?
4:41
Cella Wright
This sea creature breathes through its butt
5:05
Stefan Al
What happens if you cut down all of a city's trees?
5:03
Angel Chang
The wildly complex anatomy of a sneaker
5:54
Pardis Sabeti and Christian Happi
A virus detection network to stop the next pandemic
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