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[52:09] The nature versus nurture debate is one of the oldest and more fiercely debated issues within science. So what e…

[4:34] In the United States, it’s estimated that 30 percent of adults and 66 percent of adolescents are regularly sle…

[2:17] In 2010, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute announced they’d created a bacteria that runs enti…

[4:28] *Yaaawwwwwn* Did just reading the word make you feel like yawning yourself? Known as contagious yawning, the re…

[3:58] Whether we cry during a sad movie, while chopping onions, or completely involuntarily, our eyes are constantly …

[2:28] Does watching this video make you itch? Dr Emily Grossman explains why the ‘social itch’ might have evolved…

[0:17] Like buds forming on a tree branch, the connections between the 86 billion neurons in our brain occur at synapses…

[2:15] Scalpel-free surgery using focused sound waves appears to be as effective in treating essential tremor as trad…

[6:01] Known for centuries as “the difficult problem,” the question of how to define consciousness has troubled p…

[13:16] This video covers all of the general anatomical features of the brain, spinal cord, and cranial nerves. The lev…