Category: Disasters

NOVA | Himalayan Megaquake Preview

Posted on: January 14, 2016

The 2015 quake that rocked Nepal was the biggest in 90 years–can we forecast the next one?

Posted on: October 21, 2015

Sea levels will rise by the same amount all over the world, right? Wrong. Here’s why.

Posted on: October 15, 2015

As internet connections multiply so do points of attack and risks to national security.

Posted on: October 8, 2015

As internet connections multiply so do points of attack and risks to national security.

Posted on: October 1, 2015

A team attempts to build the flood boat using inscriptions from an ancient clay tablet.

Posted on: September 30, 2015

Scientists scour a marsh in the Middle East for signs of periodic Mesopotamian flooding.

Posted on: August 25, 2015

An astonishing find could solve the mystery of Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition.

Posted on: July 30, 2015

Go inside the Fukushima power plants for the minute-by-minute story of what went wrong.

Posted on: July 28, 2015

When an unimaginably colossal tsunami hits Fukushima, the results are catastrophic.

Posted on: June 10, 2015

Go inside the Fukushima power plants for the minute-by-minute story of what went wrong.

Gross Science | S2 Ep35: Why Does This Frog Have So Many Legs?! August 21, 2017
These frogs can have up to TEN back legs.
Gross Science | S1 Ep32: How Far Do Sneezes and Vomit Travel? August 18, 2017
Germs can travel way farther than you might think.
Gross Science | S1 Ep10: What Can Herpes Do To Your Brain? August 18, 2017
Herpes is probably hiding in your nerve cells right now.
Gross Science | S1 Ep22: What Is the Black Plague... And Should You Be Worri August 18, 2017
osemite National Park just shut down two campgrounds due to the plague.
Gross Science | S1 Ep9: Why Most Sand Tiger Sharks Die in the Womb August 18, 2017
Sand tiger shark fetuses eat their siblings in the womb.
Gross Science | S1 Ep26: The Horrors of Ancient Cataract Surgeries August 18, 2017
Doctors have been slicing into eyeballs for over 2500 years.
Gross Science | S1 Ep33: 5 Gross Facts About Koalas August 18, 2017
Baby koalas eat their mom's poop... and that's just the beginning.
Gross Science | S1 Ep12: What Lives In Cheese? August 18, 2017
What makes cheese so delicious? It's the bacteria, fungi, mites, and maggots living in it.
Gross Science | S1 Ep5: Could Kangaroo Farts Curb Global Warming? August 18, 2017
Cows burps release a ton of methane into the atmosphere.
Gross Science | S2 Ep22: The REAL Rudolph Has Bloody Antlers and Super Visio August 18, 2017
Santa's reindeer just got a whole lot more interesting.

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