MinuteEarth
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How Much Gold is in Our Poop?
20 Nov 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Pathogens: Organisms that can cause disease. Reuse of Human Excreta: T...
Inside The Sunny Center of a Hurricane
19 Nov 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Subsidence: the downward movement of an air parcel as it cools and become...
The Never Ending Lightning Storm
17 Nov 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Lightning hotspot: is a geographic location where there is a higher frequ...
Identify Antibodies
16 Nov 2025
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Capillary Action
15 Nov 2025
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Why Don't Electric Eels Shock Themselves?
14 Nov 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Electrocyte: a modified muscle or nerve cell that generates electricity i...
The time I was a human incubator
13 Nov 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Preterm birth: Babies born before 37 weeks of gestation. Complications fr...
Why Flushing Isn't For Everyone
12 Nov 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Sewage system: A network of pipes that conveys sewage from a point of ori...
Why Hurricane Paths Are WEIRD
11 Nov 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Fujiwhara effect: a phenomenon that occurs when two nearby cyclonic vorti...
The Antarctic Ocean is WEIRD
10 Nov 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Antarctic Circumpolar Current: an ocean current that flows clockwise from...
Plague Test
09 Nov 2025
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False Results
08 Nov 2025
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Why Did It Take Us So Long?
07 Nov 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Zoophily: a form of pollination whereby pollen is transferred by animals ...
Eclipses Used To Be Terrifying
06 Nov 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Saros: a period of about 18 years between repetitions of solar and lunar ...
Apparently tree FINGERPRINTS are a thing
05 Nov 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Spectral fingerprint: the distinctive pattern of radiation reflected by a...
How eclipses proved that the Earth is slowing down
04 Nov 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Corona: the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere. General Relativity...
Why Do Weeping Willows Weep?
03 Nov 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Hormones: chemical messengers that are secreted directly into the blood, ...
Naming COVID-19
02 Nov 2025
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Swine Flu
01 Nov 2025
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This Chemical Does Nothing, But It's Still Bad For You
31 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: PFAS: A class of man-made molecules consisting of a fully (per) or partly...
Is Bigger Better?
30 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Exoskeleton: a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate ...
The WEIRD Way Monkeys Got to America
29 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Oceanic dispersal: A type of biological dispersal where terrestrial anima...
In The Future, Death Will Be Different
28 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Global Burden of Disease Study: A comprehensive look at morbidity and mor...
Why Do People Hate Koalas? (ft. @tibees )
27 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Fecal pap: a mixture of contents from an herbivore mother's caecum that c...
Micro Extinction
26 Oct 2025
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Softwood Pollination
25 Oct 2025
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Why Are They All In Antarctica?
24 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: ANSMET: a program funded by the Office of Polar Programs of the National ...
Should More Species Be Extinct?
23 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: IUCN: The International Union for Conservation of Nature is an internatio...
These Countries Are Cheating
22 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Paris Agreement: a 2015 treaty negotiated by 196 parties that aims to red...
How Fish Get Away With Being Colorful
21 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Visual resolution: the ability to see fine spatial detail MinuteEarth i...
Why Most Fossils Are Incomplete
20 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Taphonomy: the branch of paleontology that deals with the processes of fo...
Softwood Hardness
19 Oct 2025
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Janka Scale
18 Oct 2025
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Ancient Humans Made Millions Of These - We Don’t Know Why
17 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Acheulean handaxe: large, chipped stone objects which represent the oldes...
Why We Haven’t Learned More In 101 Years Of Trying
16 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: European Eel: A long-lived, snakelike fish native to the rivers of Europe...
This Is Not A Bug
15 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Bug: a small insect, or an insect of a large order distinguished by havin...
How Caffeine Accidentally Took Over The World
14 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Alkaloid: any of a class of nitrogenous organic compounds of plant origin...
Is Pregnancy A Disease?
13 Oct 2025
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Softwood Evolution
12 Oct 2025
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Colloquial and Taxonomic
11 Oct 2025
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You Can’t Actually Die Of Old Age
10 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Cause of death: the specific injury or disease that leads to death. De...
The Weird Sex Lives of Bluegills
09 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Alternative mating strategy: a strategy used by male or female animals, o...
The Disease You Will Never Survive
08 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Prion: an abnormal pathogenic agent that is transmissible and able to ind...
Why Do Heart Attacks Cause *Arm* Pain?
07 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Nerve: a whitish fiber or bundle of fibers that transmits impulses of sen...
What Is The Best Shape For A Farm?
06 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Central pivot irrigation: an irrigation system that moves in a circular p...
Angiosperms and Gymnosperms
05 Oct 2025
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Hardwoods and Softwoods
04 Oct 2025
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When Was The Worst Time In History To Die?
03 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Comorbidity: the simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical...
The 3 Reasons This Tree Has Lived 5000 Years
02 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Great basin bristlecone pine tree: a species of pine tree that includes m...
Why It's Impossible To Win a Nuclear War
01 Oct 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Black carbon: groups of linked carbon atoms. Fallout: radioactive part...
When Tree Planting Goes Wrong
30 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Afforestation: the process of introducing trees and tree seedlings to an ...
Which Is Worse: Underpopulation Or Overpopulation?
29 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Overpopulation: a situation in which there are too many people for the am...
Balsa Hardwood
28 Sep 2025
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Dog Years
27 Sep 2025
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What if We Replaced Nuclear With Potatoes
26 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Calorie: the energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water th...
How We Learned That Water Isn't An Element
25 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Chemical element: is a species of atoms that have a given number of prot...
There’s No Such Thing As “Warm-” Or “Cold-” Blooded
24 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Thermoregulation: the strategy through which the body maintains its inter...
Mushroom Wars
23 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Fungi: Members of a eukaryotic kingdom that have chitin in their cell wal...
The Couch Candy Protocol
22 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Species accumulation curve: a graph recording the cumulative number of sp...
Different Thunders
21 Sep 2025
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Thunder Shockwave
20 Sep 2025
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The Plant You Don’t Have To Water
19 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Epiphyte: a plant that grows on another plant but does not feed from it ...
We Have No Idea Why
18 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Bioluminescence: the biochemical emission of light by living organisms su...
When 90dB is LOUDER than 120dB
17 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Decibels (dB): a unit used to measure changes in pressure or power. Lo...
Why Weather Forecasts Suck
16 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Front: a boundary separating air masses of different characteristics, suc...
What Happens When A Volcano Meets a Glacier?
15 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Decompression Melting: Mantle melting that involves the upward movement o...
Shock wave
14 Sep 2025
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What’s Thunder
13 Sep 2025
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How Do Abortion Pills Work?
12 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Medication abortion/pill-based abortion: an abortion that uses pills, rat...
Why Continents Are High
11 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Tectonic plate: Earth’s rigid outer layer is broken up into a bunch of ...
Our Lungs Have A Fatal Flaw
10 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Alveolus: any of the many tiny air sacs of the lungs which allow for rapi...
Vampire Life is Hard
09 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Hematophagy: the practice by some species of feeding on the blood of oth...
Do Other Diseases Have "Long" Versions?
08 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Sequelae: Chronic complications of an acute condition. RSV: Respirator...
Whale Sounds
07 Sep 2025
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Stable Stations
06 Sep 2025
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The Actual Reason Men Die First
05 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Chromosome: a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in ...
Why Is There So Much Land In The North?
04 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Continental drift: An early theory of land movement that posited that the...
The Super Secrets of Sewage
03 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Microbiome - the microorganisms in a particular environment (including th...
They all do the same, but we still need them
02 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Ecological redundancy (also: functional redundancy or functional equivale...
Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From?
01 Sep 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Zoonosis: A disease that can be transmitted to humans by animals Hyper...
Bertha Benz
31 Aug 2025
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Favorite Green
30 Aug 2025
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Why Water Dissolves (Almost) Everything
29 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: solvent: a substance that dissolves a solute solubility: the relative ...
Screens are NOT the reason kids need glasses 👀
28 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Lens: A transparent biconvex structure in the eye that can change its sha...
The Freshwater Paradox
27 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Speciation: The formation of new and distinct species. Sympatric speci...
Why Do Humans Vomit So Much? 🤮
26 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Emesis: The act of vomiting Vomiting: The oral eviction of gastrointes...
Is Soil Alive?
25 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Soil health: the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living...
Disasters Price
24 Aug 2025
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Cheaper Alternatives
23 Aug 2025
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Bitcoin mining is a lot like reindeer mating 🪙💖🦌
22 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Bitcoin: a digital currency known as a cryptocurrency, which uses a proof...
The Cheapest Way To Save A Life
21 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Vitamin A: A group of nutrients called retinoids used in several differen...
Which is Worse?
20 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Aqueous humour: The clear fluid filling the space in the front of the eye...
Why The Ocean Needs Salt
19 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Salt: chemical compounds made of positively- and negatively-charged parti...
Why The Weather Is Worse At The Mall
18 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Evapotranspiration: the return of water to the atmosphere from the ground...
Coal Harm
17 Aug 2025
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Specific Energy
16 Aug 2025
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How Birds Fooled Military Radar
15 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Radar aeroecology - the use of radar to study airborne life, like birds, ...
The Most Common Allergy In The World
14 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Allergy: A damaging immune response by the body to a substance. Allerg...
Why The Shortest Day Of The Year Isn't The Coldest
13 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Astronomical seasons - seasons that are defined by equinoxes and solstice...
The Plankton Paradox
12 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Competitive Exclusion Principle: The idea that two similar species cannot...