Copy, Paste, Clone: What it Takes to Bring Back the Past
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
For a subject that won the Nobel Prize in 2012 and could be considered a scientific miracle, we surprisingly don’t hear a lot about cloning today. This episode, Dr. Vilceu Bordignon joins Dr. Samantha Yammine to give us an update on where we are with the science of cloning and how that technology is moving forward. Sam also looks into some new studies that explain why some old houses feel haunted and a surprisingly eco-friendly way to deal with termites.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, science nerds. Weekly reminder that we love hearing from you. And it also helps more people |
| 0:06.4 | discover the show. So, join us in sharing some science. I mean, all you got to do is drop us a little |
| 0:12.0 | comment or review. Love you. Thank you. They say the truth is stranger than fiction. |
| 0:21.5 | Well, in this episode, we're proven it, baby. |
| 0:24.3 | We'll talk about the future with the science of clones. |
| 0:27.5 | Can we bring back dinosaurs? |
| 0:28.9 | What about cloning your adorable pet dog? |
| 0:31.1 | And humans? |
| 0:32.4 | Where do we draw the line? |
| 0:33.9 | But before that, we'll investigate a phenomenon that's haunted humanity for centuries, creepy old houses, and the really eerie feeling of being watched. |
| 0:43.6 | Science may finally be able to explain the paranormal, or at least a small part of it. |
| 0:48.8 | And to cap it off, we'll look at nature's most destructive pest and a surprisingly green way to take them out. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to the weird, wonderful, and sometimes creepy side of science and curiosity weekly. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm Dr. Samantha Amin. Let's get started. |
| 1:03.3 | Have you ever been in a creaky old house and felt just like unsettled, maybe agitated? |
| 1:08.7 | Like there's something spooky going on, perhaps even something |
| 1:12.1 | paranormal. Now, I'm not here to disprove or prove the existence of ghosts, but researchers have |
| 1:18.3 | been working for years trying to figure out scientific explanations for supernatural phenomena. |
| 1:23.7 | A recent study has a potential explanation for that eerie sensation some people feel in old houses. |
| 1:29.6 | And it's not spirits or the occult or anything like that. It's sound waves, specifically something |
| 1:35.6 | called infrasound. Infrasound is an ultra-low frequency vibration that's too low to be heard |
| 1:41.5 | by our human ears. It can occur naturally through things like thunder or volcanic eruptions, |
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