SciShow: The Tallest, Smallest, and Oldest Science of 2019

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Content of the Lesson: Scientific discovery often dabbles in the extreme, challenging and exceeding what we think of as "possible." And this year's discoveries were no different! We present to you three scientific discoveries made this year that set out to find new extremes, and succeeded. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg , Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr.Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Oldest Fungi https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1217-0 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/science/fungi-fossils-plants.html https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01629-1 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-017-0581-3_27 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00829.x Weakest Radio Signal https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6431/1072 https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2019/tnw/listening-to-quantum-radio/ https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/communications/outreach/funfacts/txt_radio_spectrum.html Special thanks to Dr. Gary Steele Biggest “Mountains” https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6428/736 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190214153125.htm https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-whats-deepest-hole-ever-dug-180954349/


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