Are you suffering from mild boredom, a grumpy frown, and a general lack of extremely niche scientific knowledge? Well, SciShow Tangents has the cure for what ails you!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links!
[Truth or Fail]
Cleaner Shrimp
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180823092057.htm
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00227-018-3379-y
Dolphin letter
Stressed Mice
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/07/050729063608.htm
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-dont-be-misled
[Fact Off]
Ant Medics
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajp.1350160407
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/02/matabele-ants-rescue-heal-injured-soldiers/
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-paramedic-ants-20180216-story.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2017.2457
Two-Headed Flatworms
https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(17)30427-7
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002481
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005273612000855
[Ask the Science Couch]
Scar tissue vs. normal tissue
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07430-w
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4352699/
Reducing scarring
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3842869/
Fetal wound healing
https://hsci.harvard.edu/skin-regeneration-and-rejuvenation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4229131/
[Butt One More Thing]
Cow poop poultice
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/poultice