Gross ScienceSaison 2015

Gross Science, a series hosted by Anna Rothschild, tells bizarre stories from the slimy, smelly, creepy world of science. ... Learn about amphibians that eat their mother's skin, strange uses for bacon, how poop can be used to cure an infection, and more gross science topics.

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10 épisodes

  • How Different Diseases Make You Smell
    E1
    How Different Diseases Make You SmellWhat's making you sick? You might be able to tell based on how you smell.
  • Death of Dragon Worms
    E2
    Death of Dragon WormsGuinea worms have plagued humans for millennia, but they’re almost extinct.
  • Sea Cucumber Evisceration
    E3
    Sea Cucumber EviscerationSea cucumbers can eviscerate themselves, shooting their internal organs through either their head or their butt.
  • Can Poop Cure an Infection?
    E4
    Can Poop Cure an Infection?Fecal transplants-putting one person's poop into another person's gut-are surprisingly effective cures for the dangerous bacterial infection, Clostridium difficile.
  • Could Kangaroo Farts Curb Global Warming?
    E5
    Could Kangaroo Farts Curb Global Warming?Cows burps release a ton of methane into the atmosphere. Can other animals, like kangaroos, teach us how to make cow gas more eco-friendly?
  • The Castrating Zombie Parasite
    E6
    The Castrating Zombie ParasiteThis parasite makes male crabs think that they’re pregnant females.
  • Why Do These Babies Eat Their Mother's Skin?
    E7
    Why Do These Babies Eat Their Mother's Skin?Legless amphibians, called caecilians, have a very strange way of feeding their young.
  • Can Cocaine Make Your Ears Rot?
    E8
    Can Cocaine Make Your Ears Rot?Cocaine is being mixed with a dangerous drug called levamisole that can destroy white blood cells and kill your skin—especially your earlobes.
  • Why Most Sand Tiger Sharks Die in the Womb
    E9
    Why Most Sand Tiger Sharks Die in the WombSand tiger shark fetuses eat their siblings in the womb.
  • What Can Herpes Do To Your Brain?
    E10
    What Can Herpes Do To Your Brain?Herpes is probably hiding in your nerve cells right now.

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