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You might need diving gear on Mars after all!
Mars is dry and has no soil to grow anything. Its atmosphere is too thin to breathe or protect from radiation. But that hasn't always been the case. Some 4 billion years ago Mars had a nice oxygen-rich atmosphere and was home to vast oceans and rivers. It held onto it for several hundred million years before it got blown away. The Sun’s ultraviolet rays broke down the atmospheric gasses and then the oceans, until they were swept away by solar wind.
Today, Mars is a dry, barren wasteland. Luckily, a sizable portion of the water is frozen in deep reservoirs and in the polar ice caps. In fact, there is enough trapped water under the surface of Mars to create a very shallow ocean. If we are able to provide a protection against solar wind and reestablish an atmosphere, we’d be able to dive through and explore its well-hidden oceans.
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The 12,025 Human Era Calendar is finally here! shop.kgs.link/Cal12025
It's more than just a calendar. It’s a statement about humanity and a reminder of our limitless potential. Prepare to explore thousands of years of adventure and discovery. Head over to our shop and get yours while supplies last!
By getting the calendar, you’re not only adding a beautiful piece of art and history to your wall, but you’re also directly supporting our mission: making science accessible for everyone, for free. Each purchase helps us create more videos and spread knowledge across the globe.
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Complex machines in tiny bodies!
Imagine if you were able to scale yourself down to a small microorganism and enter a drop of water sliding down the leaf. What originally looked like an empty drop of fresh water would likely quickly turn into a giant ecosystem beaming with life! A single drop of water can be home to tens of thousands of microorganisms. Some of the most common ones you'd see swimming around are bacteria!
Despite the water holding onto their single-celled bodies like glue, some move hundreds of body lengths per second, equivalent to a person shoveling through the mud at over 600 km/h! However, bacteria weigh so little, and water is so viscous that they have basically no inertia, meaning that there is no gliding on this scale. The result is a weird jerky motion that’s hard to keep track of.
One of the reasons for that is the fascinating structures called flagella. They are one of the most complex and dynamic biological structures, and the number of flagella bacteria has varies depending on the species. Acting as tiny rotating propellers, they allow bacteria to propel and navigate through the medium they're in and are crucial for their biological processes such as survival, colonization and infection.
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23 Million subscribers!
Another million of you have joined our birb nest, and we are amazed by what this community has become.
Thank you for your curiosity, your support, and for sharing this journey with us! 💖
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Friends make our lives better! But maybe you've been feeling unsure lately about who to write to or who to share your life with. That's why we're organizing the second edition of global kurzgesagt meetups! ✨
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Black holes: the beacons of the universe!
When a black hole is born from the core of a star collapsing under its own weight, it keeps its angular momentum. This means that matter that gets drawn in doesn’t just fall in a straight line, but instead begins orbiting the black hole, in smaller and smaller circles going faster and faster. The result is an accretion disk where gas and matter orbit the black hole at nearly the speed of light. But not all matter falls into the black hole. Sometimes that gas will escape as a hot wind and get blown away from the disk at high speeds. The high-energy jets that X-ray and radio observations show exploding away from the vicinity of some supermassive black holes are even more dramatic. These jets can move at nearly the speed of light in narrow beams and can travel hundreds of thousands of light years. Just like lighthouses shining through the stormy nights, they warn us about the nearby cosmic storm in the most fascinating way.
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We’re making a PC game! ✨
The universe is a fascinating yet unexplored place – it's about time to change that!
Join the Star Birds on their journey across space, mine asteroids, and discover new technologies to advance even further!
And who knows? Maybe you'll discover something that's truly out of this world... 🌚
Star Birds is coming to your Steam library in 2025!
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Not all of your DNA are actual genes!
Genes are parts of DNA that code for specific proteins, and are almost like dictionaries that contain
all the words of the language of life your cells speak – the language of proteins. However, only about 1% of our DNA is made up of protein-coding genes. The rest of it is called “non-coding DNA”. Previously referred to as “junk DNA”, it was believed that it has no known purpose, but today we know that “non-coding DNA” is quite important. Put simply, it’s like a set of rules that say which proteins should be built, at which time they should be built, how many of them we need, which ones should go together, and much, much more.
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Hungry for a Cosmic Croissant?
Our planet’s magnetic field has a distinctive drop shape that is a result of the solar winds pushing against it. But actually, the Sun also has a magnetic field that is subject to interstellar winds.
The shape of the so-called heliosphere was long thought to be similar to that of a comet. Nowadays, simulations have shown that the Sun’s magnetic field – the massive shield that protects us from interstellar radiation – might very well be a flying croissant.
So… thanks Space Croissant!
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