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Have We Found All The Elements?

Reactions takes a look at how science and chemistry is helping to create man-made elements. Particle accelerators have the ability to create new elements, but have we hit a point where we've found all the elements? Isotopes, physics, and particle accelerators, oh my!
Season 3 Episode 43 Length 05:19 Premiere: 10/19/16

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Season 3 Episodes

Does Cough Medicine Really Work?
S3 E55 Length 03:55 Premiere Date 01/03/17

How Does Alcohol Get You Drunk?
S3 E54 Length 03:26 Premiere Date 12/27/16

The Cold Truth About Fat
S3 E53 Length 03:00 Premiere Date 12/22/16

Let's Settle This: How to Care for Cast-Iron
S3 E52 Length 03:08 Premiere Date 12/15/16

How To Get Rid of Beer Foam Fast
S3 E51 Length 01:35 Premiere Date 12/07/16

You Can Taste Garlic with Your Feet!?
S3 E50 Length 02:36 Premiere Date 12/06/16

Gum + Chocolate = ?????
S3 E49 Length 02:10 Premiere Date 12/04/16

Can I Still Eat This?
S3 E48 Length 04:19 Premiere Date 11/29/16

How to Fry a Thanksgiving Turkey Without Burning Your House
S3 E47 Length 03:14 Premiere Date 11/21/16

What's the Deal with Acne?
S3 E46 Length 03:56 Premiere Date 11/15/16

The Science of Distance Running
S3 E45 Length 04:23 Premiere Date 11/03/16

How Much Candy Would Kill You?
S3 E44 Length 03:32 Premiere Date 11/03/16

Have We Found All The Elements?
S3 E43 Length 05:19 Premiere Date 10/19/16

How Does Anesthesia Work?
S3 E42 Length 03:23 Premiere Date 10/11/16

What Causes PMS?
S3 E41 Length 03:30 Premiere Date 10/04/16

How To Bring Stale Chips And Bread Back From The Dead
S3 E40 Length 03:39 Premiere Date 09/27/16

Accidental Discoveries That Go Boom
S3 E39 Length 05:40 Premiere Date 09/20/16

How Do Lithium-Ion Batteries Work?
S3 E38 Length 03:46 Premiere Date 09/13/16

Genetically Modified Humans? CRISPR/Cas 9 Explained
S3 E37 Length 03:56 Premiere Date 09/06/16

What If Humans Could Photosynthesize?
S3 E36 Length 04:04 Premiere Date 08/30/16

Is It OK To Pee In The Pool?
S3 E35 Length 03:00 Premiere Date 08/16/16

How To Make Fish Less Fishy (Chemistry Life Hacks)
S3 E34 Length 03:12 Premiere Date 08/09/16

How to Catch Dopers
S3 E33 Length 03:45 Premiere Date 08/04/16

The World's Most Unavoidable Carcinogen
S3 E32 Length 03:04 Premiere Date 07/26/16

How Does Protein Build Muscle?
S3 E31 Length 03:40 Premiere Date 07/19/16

How To Make a Fluorescent Flower
S3 E30 Length 01:41 Premiere Date 07/12/16

How Does Fluorescence Work?
S3 E29 Length 03:23 Premiere Date 07/12/16

Is Fluoride in Drinking Water Safe?
S3 E28 Length 03:14 Premiere Date 07/05/16

How Do Sparklers Work?
S3 E27 Length 02:23 Premiere Date 06/28/16

Why the Maillard Reaction Makes Everything Delicious
S3 E26 Length 02:53 Premiere Date 06/21/16

Elephant Toothpaste
S3 E25 Length 03:00 Premiere Date 06/14/16

Why Do Onions Make You Cry?
S3 E24 Length 02:18 Premiere Date 06/07/16

Does Gum Really Stay In Your Stomach for 7 Years?
S3 E23 Length 03:00 Premiere Date 05/17/16

Does Homeopathy Work?
S3 E22 Length 04:44 Premiere Date 05/10/16

How Can You Make Flowers Last Longer?
S3 E21 Length 03:09 Premiere Date 05/06/16

What's The Best Way To Whiten Teeth?
S3 E20 Length 03:59 Premiere Date 04/26/16

Why Is Snake Venom So Deadly?
S3 E19 Length 03:48 Premiere Date 04/19/16

What Makes Coffee So Good?
S3 E18 Length 04:54 Premiere Date 04/12/16

How Does Toothpaste Work and Who Are We?
S3 E17 Length 02:35 Premiere Date 04/07/16

Why Does Metal Rust?
S3 E16 Length 01:54 Premiere Date 12/21/22

Why Do Wasps Attack?
S3 E15 Length 05:00 Premiere Date 04/05/16

Why Are Synthetic Drugs So Dangerous?
S3 E14 Length 03:32 Premiere Date 03/29/16

The Truth About Peanut Allergies
S3 E13 Length 02:41 Premiere Date 03/22/16

Why Does Food Make Your Mouth Water?
S3 E12 Length 03:10 Premiere Date 03/15/16

What Happens If You Stop Washing Your Hair?
S3 E11 Length 03:15 Premiere Date 03/08/16

How Does Shampoo Work?
S3 E10 Length 03:38 Premiere Date 03/08/16

How Does Hairspray Work?
S3 E9 Length 02:52 Premiere Date 03/08/16

Why Does Stepping On a Lego Hurt So Bad?
S3 E8 Length 03:04 Premiere Date 03/01/16

How Do Matches Work?
S3 E7 Length 02:02 Premiere Date 02/23/16

You're Cleaning Your Contacts Wrong, Probably
S3 E6 Length 04:42 Premiere Date 02/18/16

Zika, Mosquitoes and How to Not Get Bitten
S3 E5 Length 04:24 Premiere Date 02/06/16

How to Make the Best Nacho Cheese
S3 E4 Length 02:59 Premiere Date 02/01/16

How Do Snowflakes Form?
S3 E3 Length 02:39 Premiere Date 01/21/16

Why Is Chocolate Deadly for Dogs?
S3 E2 Length 02:15 Premiere Date 01/18/16

How Do Bees Make Honey?
S3 E1 Length 02:25 Premiere Date 01/11/16

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