Seeing Like Mantis Shrimp to Spot Cancer

Mantis shrimp might as well be super heroes, and one of their powers might given us insight on how to spot cancer.Hosted by: Hank GreenSciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org----------Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow----------Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever:Chris Peters, Matt Curls, Kevin Bealer, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jacob, Christopher R Boucher, Nazara, charles george, Christoph Schwanke, Ash, Silas Emrys, KatieMarie Magnone, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, James Knight, GrowingViolet, Drew Hart, Sam Lutfi, Alisa Sherbow, Jason A Saslow----------Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishowTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishowTumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.comInstagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow----------Sources:https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12140https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/light/Lesson-1/Polarizationhttps://scholar.harvard.edu/files/schwartz/files/lecture14-polarization.pdfhttps://www.osapublishing.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-4-10-1263&id=375131https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/15/501443254/watch-mantis-shrimps-incredible-eyesight-yields-clues-for-detecting-cancerhttps://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/shedding-light-on-light-in-the-ocean/https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/light/Lesson-1/Polarizationhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4528539/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/mantis-shrimp-inspires-a-new-camera-for-detecting-cancer-180952927/https://ece.illinois.edu/newsroom/news/3880https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263781666_Screening_Cancer_Aggressiveness_by_Using_Circularly_Polarized_Lighthttps://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-biomedical-optics/volume-19/issue-12/126002/Trimodal-color-fluorescence-polarization-endoscopy-aided-by-a-tumor-selective/10.1117/1.JBO.19.12.126002.fullhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?reload=true&tp=&arnumber=6880796https://www.sciencealert.com/mantis-shrimp-can-see-cancer-before-symptoms-appearhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/334027644_Polarized_Light-Based_Cancer_Cell_Detection_Techniques_A_Reviewhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/346701860_Angular_optimization_for_cancer_identification_with_circularly_polarized_lighthttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3049010/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26585281/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAfIrb2epn4&ab_channel=NewsAtIllinoishttps://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mantis-shrimp-gm146881481-8703545https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Circular.Polarization.Circularly.Polarized.Light_Left.Hand.Animation.305x190.255Colors.gifhttps://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sunglasses-gm530261147-54746410https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/peacock-mantis-shrimp-gm467993194-60754950https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mantis-shrimp-eyes-gm160057120-17795723