Integrity in Education

In this episode of Science Live, Dr. Roger Billings delivers a powerful and personal message on integrity in education — and why real knowledge is always worth the work. 

Then explore the breathtaking science behind bald eagles — from their extraordinary 20/4 vision and UV light detection to the winglet technology inspired by eagle feathers now used on commercial aircraft.

Plus, discover the remarkable recovery story of how bald eagles were brought back from fewer than 420 nesting pairs to over 70,000 today — one of the greatest endangered species success stories in American history.

About DrB

Dr. Roger Billings is a visionary innovator whose work has touched the lives of millions of students and transformed the landscape of education. Widely known as “DrB” to the countless kids who benefit from his groundbreaking Acellus learning system, Dr. Billings has dedicated his life to advancing education through technology. As part of DrB’s lifelong commitment to supporting education, Science LIVE was launched as a way to “give back” by mentoring students in conjunction with the Roger Billings Scholarship Program.


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  1. Madison

    This is cool!

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  2. Aubree

    Hello from nevada

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  3. Niko

    That was so funny the bold eagle

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  4. Calvin

    Hello from Michigan

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  5. Braxton

    eagles are so cool

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  6. Gage

    Im glad to be apart of this program

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  7. Ari

    Bald eagles received their name because they are stark white.

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  8. Maliah

    Can’t wait to learn

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  9. Zivah

    I guess people with white hair would’ve been ‘balde,’ I find that intriguing

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  10. Amya

    Cool video

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  11. Makynzi

    Could the drone snatching eagles be trained to detect criminals in similar vein to a canine?

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  12. Valerie

    Hi from ct!

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  13. Hayes

    so excited and this is so cool : ) it is cool that eagles can see 2 miles away and hunt drones

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  14. Alexa

    hi from illinois

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  15. Tyr

    I think you should train an eagle to watch over R51 to keep him out of trouble.

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    • Science Live

      That’s a really good idea, Tyr! 🤣🤣

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  16. Zen

    Nah bro poor BALD eagle

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  17. Aaram

    Hello Tobias, eagles are beautiful and amazing!

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  18. Sofia

    I didn’t know eagles were used to catch drones! Always learning new things during this science episodes!

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  19. Emily

    Hello from Illinois!

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  20. Annabelle

    bald eagles are awsome!!!

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  21. Cameron

    I love watching birds, so this is cool to see.

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  22. Ruth

    Hi from Ks

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  23. Sean

    I heard dragonflies have tiny ridges on the surface of their wings to reduce drag.

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  24. James

    hello from GA

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  25. Hannah

    Hi from GA!! I love Roger Billings!

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  26. Emily

    Super excited for the live

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  27. Isabella

    good evening from mississippi!!

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  28. Kadence

    Hi from Tennessee. Hi y’all I Love science live😄

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  29. Connor

    Hi from Nebraska.

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  30. Hayla

    Eagles are beautiful

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  31. Shelby

    I love the bird talk!

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  32. Edward

    I love eagles

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  33. Silas

    How did the bald eagle get its name?

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  34. Maxwell

    Bald eagles are so cool I love thag they are the national bird of America

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  35. Ava

    I love this

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  36. Lillian

    I love eagles ! <3

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  37. Arianna

    that is so cool😁

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  38. Vivian

    My brother and me thought it was super cool they could catch drones.

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  39. Emilio

    I wonder how the science of a dogs nose works for such special smelling

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  40. Aiden

    I love that because what if you had an outdoor shower!

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  41. Brinley

    Hello I am Brinley And I’m From Ohio.

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  42. Adam

    The first plane was actually inspired by a vulture, we can learn a lot from nature, I’m wondering if we can learn other things from nature

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  43. Levi

    very cool

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  44. Michael

    Great video thus far!

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  45. Katelyn

    Birds are very intelligent, it’s so interesting that they’re being utilized in law enforcement.

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  46. Deepak

    That’s so cool the can catch drones

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  47. Brady

    Hi from Kansas

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  48. Ronny

    Hii I’m from New Boston tx

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  49. Isabella

    Crazy that little winglet can save millions of fuel have a good day

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  50. James

    Very excited for todays episode!

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  51. Alyssa

    Hello from Mississippi

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  52. Emory

    That’s amazing we can work so well with animals!!

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  53. Emerson

    hello from tennesee

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  54. Eduardo

    Hello from Texas!

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  55. Jameson

    Hi I am from Kentucky and I want to know how the flaps lets reduce drag?

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  56. Jadon

    what do eagles and drones have to do in science common wise?

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  57. Angella

    hello Acellus

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  58. William

    Cool! eagles trained to take out drones.

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  59. Zyrah

    hi from texas

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  60. Ella

    Hello from Ella Watson AND Emma Watson

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  61. Emily

    Wow!! Eagles are incredibly talented!!!

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  62. Melvin

    I made it here in time… Also, hello from Mississippi!

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  63. Aiden

    I love that because what if you had an outdoor shower?

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  64. Gia

    That’s so cool that the police are training birds now!

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  65. Genesis

    Hi from Georgia.

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  66. Andrew

    Hi from Georgia

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  67. Jose

    Hi from GA!!

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  68. Hayden

    Actively training eagles to attack drones. That is hilarious!

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  69. Aaram

    Thank you Dr. John, very informative.

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  70. Levi

    I love Science Live! hello from Missouri!!

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  71. Maximus

    hi from kentucky

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  72. Amy

    Hello from Texas

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  73. Bryce

    wasn’t the first “plane” inspired by a type of bird?

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  74. Mavis

    Eagles are super cool!

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    • Ashton

      Yeah, there awsome

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  75. Cole

    That’s awesome the can catch drones

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    • Ronny

      Here from Tx!

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    • Axel

      Eagles are huge .

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  76. Adabel

    Hello from VA! It’s my third live so far and it’s been super fun! 🙂

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  77. Goran

    This is very interesting!

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  78. Hannah

    Hello! Cant wait for science live!

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  79. Emily

    Hello from Texas

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  80. Adam

    so trained eagles, wow

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  81. Dylan

    Hello from Atlanta

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  82. Sarea

    Hi from Massachusetts !

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  83. Helena

    HI Dr. B

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  84. Cole

    Hi from Colorado

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  85. Jayleana

    Hello from Texas! 😀

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  86. Taylor

    Excited for this weeks live

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  87. Johnathon

    Hi from Ohio

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  88. Eben

    So cool how so much aviation technology can be contributed to birds! Love science live!!!

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    • Science Live

      Hi Eben! You’re so right! Science is awesome!

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  89. Giuliana

    thank you for the information!!!

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  90. Iliannah

    Hello from texas

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  91. Memphis

    hello frum VA

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  92. Rileigh

    Please do more of these

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  93. Taylor

    Hi my name is Taylor and I love art so my idea is to make an Art Class that can teach us history of art and how to use math to also make a masterpiece. It can be educational and still fun, and I am in 7th grade and I think we should start this year in the summer to have art classes for middle schooler’s.

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  94. Amy

    happy to be here today

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  95. Molly

    hello from mississippi

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  96. Rileigh

    This is so interesting

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  97. Stuart

    Hello from magnolia!

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  98. Rileigh

    I’m here from texas

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  99. Niko

    Hello from Costa Rica

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  100. Serenity

    How far can a eagle see?

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  101. Hayden

    Hey from Mississippi

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  102. Danil

    Hello from Nashville Tennessee

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  103. Helena

    Hi from Michigan

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  104. Ronny

    Here from tx

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  105. Raziel

    What would happen if the plane made the wings the other way and flew it?

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  106. Zidane

    Hello from Nevada.

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  107. Megan

    Hello from Lascassas, TN

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  108. Tri

    Hello from GA

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  109. Andrew

    Hi from Kc

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  110. Brynne

    It’s very amazing that all eagles fly like that so they can go faster!!

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  111. Payson

    Those flaps are a good idea!

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  112. Jorden

    Hello from Maryland!!

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  113. Dalila

    I love it at Science Live!

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  114. Abigail

    how can feathers make a airplain better when flying?

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  115. Madison

    Hi from North Carolina

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  116. Zaydee

    Im very lucky to have the opportunity to be on this live & get to learn more things!

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  117. Finnegan

    hello from GA

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  118. Dagmar

    I’ve always found eagles to be fascinating creatures due to their excellent eyesight. Eagles look so cool when they do those amazing death spirals.

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  119. Ronny

    Gonna be good!

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  120. Felicitas

    Learning from nature is what made us great, Eagles are amazing!

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  121. John

    Here from AL!

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  122. Emmett

    I love nature!

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  123. Maximus

    Hello from Rhode Island.

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  124. Brett

    Hi from Texas.

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  125. Elijah

    I can imagine a plane with feathers! 🙂

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  126. Isabella

    hello from TN

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  127. Alivia

    science live yay!!!!

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  128. Trenton

    Amazing video very interesting

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    check in from va

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  130. Sydney

    Hi from Georgia!!

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    hello from nyc

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    • Joelly

      im also from nyc!

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    Hello from AZ

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  133. Adam

    oh wow that’s cool

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  134. Daniel

    Hello from oklahoma

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  135. Aria

    Hi from MO!

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  136. Braden

    Science is cool

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  137. Vivian

    I loved this weeks live.

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  138. Sophia

    Military planes being inspired by birds is genius.

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  139. Angelica

    Hi from Kentucky!

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  140. Karelle

    hi from nevada

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  141. Brooke

    love science live

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  142. Bella

    bell here love this

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    hello from Nevada

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  144. Alexander

    This cool

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  145. Ethan

    I cant wait to learn from this science live and have fun watching!

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  146. Kathleen

    the fact that nature itself can teach us so much about science is incredible!!

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  147. Emily

    Hi guys! Happy Wednesday!

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  148. Wahuda

    hello how can I join the Acellus community from the app I wish there was another way to comment other students because the ones Acellus have are good but sometimes the are not strong like what I might be thinking in my brain what if the other classmate got a 100 in there final exam in the same course I have and I got a 97 what if I would like them to know and congratulate them better or the opposite and motivating them

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    Hello from Ohio!

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  150. Connor

    Watching from California!

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  151. Emmitt

    I’m Emmitt excited for science live.

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  152. Travis

    Eagles have 20/5 vision? Wow, I never knew that specifically.

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  153. Emeli

    hello from texas

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  154. Emma

    I loved learning about how eagles can see so far!

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  155. Hudson

    Why do Egels see better then us?🫤

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  156. Noah

    Hi, Noah here.

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  157. Remington

    It’s crazy how complicated one airplane can be .

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  158. Arius

    Best science live

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    Hello from Iowa!

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    Hi everyone I’m from Grand Prairie

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    hi from georgia

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    • James

      im from georgia to

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  162. David

    hi from guatemala

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  163. Trenton

    Hi from texas

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  164. Lian

    This life is so interesting, I did not know eagles were so cool .. 🙂

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  165. Colton

    Colton here from South Carolina

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  166. Nia

    Why does an eagles eye see better than a human eye if its eye has 20/5 and we have 20/20?

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    • Science Live

      Thanks for your question Nia! 20/20 means you can see clearly from 20 feet away. But 20/5 means an eagle can see the same tiny details from 20 feet that we’d only see if we were 5 feet away! Their eyes are way sharper, like built-in super binoculars. 🦅

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  167. Caden

    hey from nc

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  168. Serenity

    nice live!

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  169. Wyatt

    hello from virginia!

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  170. Truman

    Could artificial intelligence be used to investigate and somehow discover ways to improve human eyesight based on observations and experiments over animals such as the eagle?

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  171. Erich

    Hello from NV

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  172. Madison

    Here from georgia

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  173. Madison

    Hello from North Carolina

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  174. Precious

    This is very fun!!!

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    • Science Live

      Hello Precious! We are so glad you are enjoying ScienceLive! 💙

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  175. Genevieve

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