What If You Swallowed the World's Most Powerful Magnet?

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This superconducting magnet can do more than attract paper clips. It could unlock energy sources that could free humans from fossil fuels. And you are about to take this miracle of science and swallow it whole. Wait, what? How would it change your DNA? How would this affect your animal instincts?

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00:00 Swallowing the most powerful magnet
00:46 Recreating the nuclear fusion of a sun
01:26 How would your organs interact?
02:17 Altering your DNA
03:14 Navigating by instinct
03:55 Would your body become magnetic?

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