The virus rabies may have contributed to legends of werewolves, vampires, and zombies. It’s a horrible disease that’s preventable with modern medicine. But it still infects—and kills—ar...
Frogs in the US are showing up with strange numbers of back legs—up to 10! In this week’s episode , I explore why. It’s a truly bizarre story.
I ate a lot of bugs… and they were (mostly) pretty tasty! Despite many people’s cultural aversion to eating bugs, there are tons of environmental, economic, and health reasons to eat insect...
OMG. Watch this giant snail slurp up an earthworm like spaghetti!
Got extra borax leftover from your last experiment making SLIME? Use it to grow your own crystals! I was on vacation with my family last week, and decided to do this fun experiment. It turned o...
Around 4 million American households with children are exposed to high levels of lead. Clearly, lead poisoning is still a huge problem in the US today, and not just in places you may have heard o...
Honeybees have to sip nectar from around 2 million flowers to make 1 lb of honey. But flowers sometimes offer more than just nectar to their pollinators—some provide caffeine, nicotine, or alco...
grossscience : > grossscience : > >> A brown garden snail named Jeremy has been born with a shell that >> spirals counterclockwise. This is a one in a hundred t...
Mother’s Day is coming up, so meet the frog that gave birth by projectile vomiting up its babies! Sadly, this frog went extinct in the 80s… But today, some scientists are trying to bring it...
What does it actually mean to be “clean”? Does it mean removing dirt? Sterilizing our skin? Or… something else entirely. As new research reveals the power of microbes to influence our ...
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Ooooooh man! A few months ago I gave a talk at TEDxMidAtlantic, and the video is now LIVE! It was totally exhilarating—and, not gonna lie, pretty nerve-wracking too (I had to pee, like, 12 time...
Today I learned that when insects shed their exoskeletons they also shed part of their guts! For lots more on insect guts and poop, check out this article from Live Science .
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This is probably the strangest plant in the world. Its name is Hydnora africana, and it’s a PARASITE that attracts pollinators by smelling like rotting flesh. But that’s not even the weir...
Can FEAR be contagious? Turns out, we may spread it through our sweat… …and even through social media. How? Find out in this week’s episode, and subscribe !
Just how much snot do we produce every day? And what REALLY causes nasal congestion? Explore the sticky, slimy world of snot with me in this week’s Gross Science. And if you want even MORE sn...
Plants use fungus like we use the Internet. Networks of fungi that connect plants are so pervasive and powerful that some scientists are calling it the “Wood Wide Web.” Using the wood w...
Sea cucumbers have perhaps the most versatile butts in the animal kingdom. They not only use them to poop…but also to breathe, eat, and house other animals. To make things even weirder, som...
Gotta say, I think my subscribers are maaaaaybe the best on the Internet. To thank you for being awesome, this week’s video is a Q/A in which I answer your questions! I talk about how to buil...