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Scientists Finally Figured Out Why This River Flows Uphill

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In 1869, an explorer found himself in a Utah canyon that, as far as he knew, shouldn't have existed. The Green River he was traveling down had cut through the Uinta Mountains, and he couldn't explain why. In 2026, scientists seem to have finally solved the mystery: a giant blob of rock about 200 kilometers below the Earth's surface. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: http

Why Everything Weighs Less in Antarctica

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Why Only 1% of All Possible Flights Are Direct

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What Is a Good Gut Microbiome, Anyway?

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How To Survive Being Eaten

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Why the Perfect Red Is Impossible to Make

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Why Don’t We Use Mothballs Anymore?

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4 Things We Can Learn From Explosions

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What’s Ruining Our Ruins?

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These Rocks Are Older Than the Sun

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Why You Should Get Your DNA Sequenced After You Die

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Those Ancient Giant Fungi Weren’t Fungi After All

Get 20% off DeleteMe by going to https://joindeleteme.com/SCISHOW and use code SCISHOW to protect your privacy! 400 million years ago, Prototaxites might have towered high above all other terrestrial