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| MLA Full: | "Cold Doesn’t Exist (And 4 Other Things Scientists Used to Think Were Real)." YouTube, uploaded by SciShow, 30 September 2025, www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_jkyNaYQmU. |
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SciShow, "Cold Doesn’t Exist (And 4 Other Things Scientists Used to Think Were Real).", September 30, 2025, YouTube, 13:32, https://youtube.com/watch?v=B_jkyNaYQmU. |
To explain how the world works, scientists occasionally have an idea that — upon further testing — turns out to be wrong. From rays that carry coldness instead of heat, to a neighboring star that causes regular mass extinctions on Earth, here are 5 things that some natural philosophers and scientists thought could be real.
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