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Building a dinosaur from a chicken - Jack Horner

Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even hands — to make a "Chickenosaurus".

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Top 5 Science Conspiracies, Theories and Hoaxes

James Williams uncovers five spooky scientific mysteries you may never have heard of.

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Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn

Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, which seems to shoot jets of ice.

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Top 10 Weapons That Changed the World

Top 10 Weapons That Changed the World

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AA-12 Shotgun On Future Weapons

AA-12 Shotgun On Future Weapons

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Dry Ice and Soap. See what happens when you mix them both

Dry Ice and Soap. See what happens when you mix them both

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The pattern behind self-deception

Watch it till the end Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble.

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