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Natural Selection

Darwin's extensive studies in the Galapagos Islands lead to his theory of natural selection, adaptation, and extinction, which have hugely expanded our understanding of how life has evolved on Earth. Now if humans would just hurry up and grow some wings already...

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  • Play Best Of 100 Greatest Discoveries
    10 Clips Playlist Best of 100 Greatest...

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    From the world of medicine to the expanse of space, we review the greatest discoveries of our time across eight different science categories. But which discoveries are the fan favorites? Watch and find out!
  • Play Greatest Discoveries in Astronomy
    10 Clips Playlist Greatest Discoveries in...

    100 Greatest Discoveries (24:38)

    From cosmic radiation to planetary orbits!
  • Play Greatest Discoveries in Evolution
    10 Clips Playlist Greatest Discoveries in...

    100 Greatest Discoveries (23:42)

    Explore the past.
  • Play Greatest Discoveries in Medicine
    10 Clips Playlist Greatest Discoveries in...

    100 Greatest Discoveries (23:40)

    Explore developments in health.

The Science Channel Clips

  • Play 100 Greatest Discoveries: Cosmic Radiation
    Cosmic Radiation

    100 Greatest Discoveries (01:23)

    Through his hot air balloon experiments, physicist, Victor Hess discovers the phenomenon and effects of cosmic radiation.
  • Play 100 Greatest Discoveries: Opabinia
    Opabinia

    100 Greatest Discoveries (00:40)

    Opabinia, one of the underwater creatures discovered in the Burgess Shale, having five eyes and a trunk like appendage was unlike any animal today
  • Play 100 Greatest Discoveries: Plate Tectonics
    Plate Tectonics

    100 Greatest Discoveries (02:05)

    Bill Nye and geologist, Dr. Neal Driscoll visit the California coastline where the Pacific and North American plates collide to help explain the phenomenon and effects of plate tectonics
  • Play 100 Greatest Discoveries: The Core of the Earth
    The Core of the Earth

    100 Greatest Discoveries (02:39)

    Take an in depth look at our planet with host Bill Nye, as he examines the Earth's inner and outer core.
  • Play 100 Greatest Discoveries Shorts: Genetics
    Genetics

    100 Greatest Discoveries... (02:15)

    Through his calculated cross breeding studies of garden peas, Mendel discovered a pattern of dominant and recessive traits which lead to groundbreaking advances in the field of genetics.
  • Play 100 Greatest Discoveries Shorts: Natural Selection
    Natural Selection

    100 Greatest Discoveries... (02:34)

    Darwin's extensive studies in the Galapagos Islands lead to his theory of natural selection, adaptation, and extinction.
  • Play 100 Greatest Discoveries Shorts: Disk of Stars
    Disk of Stars

    100 Greatest Discoveries... (02:47)

    William Herschel was a classical trained musician who changed to astronomy to study the stars. He became the greatest telescope maker of his time and discovered that the Milky Way is full of stars.
  • Play 100 Greatest Discoveries: Continental Drift
    Continental Drift

    100 Greatest Discoveries (02:12)

    Groundbreaking research by Alfred Wegener reveals that the phenomenon of continental drift.
  • Play 100 Greatest Discoveries: Expanding Universe
    Expanding Universe

    100 Greatest Discoveries (02:53)

    Edwin Hubble determines the distance to many nearby galaxies and discovers that the farther they are from us, the faster they are flying away from us. His calculations prove that the universe is expanding.
  • Play 100 Greatest Discoveries: Global Warming, Shrinking Glaciers and CO2 Emissions
    Global Warming, Shrinking...

    100 Greatest Discoveries (01:57)

    Watch one of the most visible effects of global warming and how the emission of fossil fuels may contribute to current warming trends.
  • Play 100 Greatest Discoveries: KT Boundary Discovery
    KT Boundary Discovery

    100 Greatest Discoveries (02:44)

    Created by a miles long Meteor, the KT Boundary marks the end of the Dinosaurs
  • Play 100 Greatest Discoveries: Atmospheric Layers
    Atmospheric Layers

    100 Greatest Discoveries (01:19)

    Weather and long term climate studies got its start with meteorologist Leon Teisserenc de Bort's discovery of the earth's layers, which he coined as the troposphere and the stratosphere.
 

From the world of medicine to the expanse of space, review the greatest discoveries of our time across eight different science categories.

 
 

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