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Which animals are sentient?

Which animals are sentient?

344.8K viewsJul 11, 2024

Howtown on Instagram: "How do scientists figure out where continents were over a billion years ago? Full video on YouTube! https://youtu.be/t1hOdm0RJlY"

Howtown on Instagram: "How do scientists figure out where continents were over a billion years ago? Full video on YouTube! https://youtu.be/t1hOdm0RJlY"

3.6M viewsApr 3, 2025

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What's this strange light in the sky? (it’s not a sprite)

What's this strange light in the sky? (it’s not a sprite)

2.4M views8 months ago

Howtown on Instagram: "This week Howtown recreated an ancient experiment (one first attempted 2,000 years ago) to estimate the size of the Earth. Instead of obelisks, we used Pringle’s cans. Thanks to Simone for sending us on this quest!"

Howtown on Instagram: "This week Howtown recreated an ancient experiment (one first attempted 2,000 years ago) to estimate the size of the Earth. Instead of obelisks, we used Pringle’s cans. Thanks to Simone for sending us on this quest!"

242.6K viewsJun 28, 2024

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The strange orbs that may doom the deep sea

The strange orbs that may doom the deep sea

551.5K viewsMay 15, 2025

Who made these mysterious holes?

Who made these mysterious holes?

1.6M viewsMay 20, 2025

Seeing the shape of Earth’s shadow during lunar eclipses was an early clue for ancient humans that we live on a globe. | Howtown

Seeing the shape of Earth’s shadow during lunar eclipses was an early clue for ancient humans that we live on a globe. | Howtown

7.9K views8 months ago

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How scientists map Earth’s deep past

1.9M viewsMar 31, 2025

How do we know Earth's circumference?

363.1K viewsJun 27, 2024

This is not a “sprite” but an even rarer atmospheric phenomenon - a “gigantic jet.” There’s a longer version of our discussion about why the heck it looks like that on Howtown’s Patreon | Howtown

2.9K views8 months ago

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So ... Where Do Facts Come From? | Joss Fong & Adam Cole of Howtown | Episode 50

1.3K viewsMay 14, 2025

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Howtown on Instagram: "We sent the Hot Ones lineup to a chemistry lab to learn about the science of capsaicin and why the science doesn’t always translate to the marketing 🔥Find the full video on our channel (link in bio) Edit and graphics by @daftyunk"

91.1K viewsDec 19, 2024

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Howtown on Instagram: "Some parts of your body are brand new - others are as old as you are! How do we know? Our latest full ep on YouTube explores the way scientists use the chemical legacy nuclear testing to precisely date all sorts of things - including elephant ivory."

69.3K views7 months ago

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What the creators of Howtown learned in their first few months on YouTube

How half the US lost part of their minds

830.9K views10 months ago

Howtown | Join our Science Paper Book Club via Patreon: 🐋patreon.com/howtown 🔬 | Instagram

136.7K views5 months ago

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When Siberia thaws, what emerges?

448.9K views7 months ago

What the actual science says about "brain rot"

3M views4 months ago

There’s a single Sitka spruce on Campbell Island, a windy uninhabited patch of land between Antarctica and New Zealand. It’s been there for a century. When nuclear tests in the 50s and 60s increased the atmospheric concentration of carbon-14, this tree quietly recorded the signal in its rings. Decades later, scientists used that tree as a proposed mark for the onset of “the Anthropocene.” But the truth is that the mark was embedded in every plant and animal, not just the loneliest tree. Our late

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Howtown on Instagram: "How much did the US spend on scientific research in the past? Where did that money end up? And what will be cut going forward?"

134.3K views9 months ago

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The only good nuclear accident

190.5K views8 months ago

Spiders fly miles by riding electric fields

576.2K views8 months ago

Welcome to Howtown

212K viewsMay 23, 2024

How dangerous could one beer be?

1.5M viewsJan 10, 2025

Aerial Videos: Howtown Ullswater, Cumbria, UK

1.3M viewsNov 8, 2020

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How X broke the news

118.1K viewsJul 25, 2024

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The Moon's origin story doesn't add up

792.7K views2 months ago

Joss Fong on Instagram: "I’ve been dreaming for years about creating a channel all about research methods and now we’ve really done it. So excited to be launching @howtown_videos with @cadamole. Will put links to our channel and our Patreon community in my bio for anyone who wants to follow along ❤️"

433.8K viewsJun 13, 2024

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Can we really blame social media? A research showdown.

566.4K views8 months ago

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