With the highly-anticipated finale of Survivor 45 right around the corner, fans of the franchise have just one burning question — who will take home the title of “Sole Survivor” and the million-dollar cash prize?
Recommended Videos While there is no way of knowing until it airs on our television screens, it is clear that the original Reba members — Dee Valladares, Austin Li Coon, and Julie Alley — have been dominating the game, but one original Belo member has a trick up his sleeve. Read More...
Is inbreeding really that bad?
I'm Anna Rothschild and this is Gross Science.
A few weeks ago I released a video on fig wasps and in it I mentioned that in at least some species male fig wasps will often mate with their sisters.
And a bunch of you asked a really sensible question that I didn't know the answer to.
You wondered why inbreeding is a successful life strategy for these species when conventional wisdom tells us that mating with your relatives is a really bad idea. Read More...
Scuba divers and free divers rely on equalising to prevent damaging their bodies. They compensate for static water pressure by adding equal gas pressure into their air spaces as the atmospheric pressure of the depth they are diving in. This prevents their air spaces from collapsing under pressure. How do freedivers not get the bends? Decompression sickness (DCS) after freediving is very rare. Freedivers simply do not on-gas enough nitrogen to provoke DCS. Read More...