MinuteEarth
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Why Some Fruits Won’t Ripen On Your Counter
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: climacteric: a pattern of fruit ripening associated with increased ethyle...
Jet Fuel
10 Aug 2025
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Visible Plates
09 Aug 2025
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Hyena Butter: Everything You Did And Didn't Want To Know
08 Aug 2025
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The Hurricane Category Scale Is Broken
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Storm surge: a sea level rise caused by strong winds pushing the water an...
How To Solve Every Global Crisis
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Ozone layer: A thin layer of ozone concentrated in the Earth’s stratosp...
The Place Where Time Flows Backwards
05 Aug 2025
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The Science of Hobbit Gluttony
04 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Metabolism: The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in...
Sinking Plates
03 Aug 2025
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Convection Currents
02 Aug 2025
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Why Sharks Are Covered In Teeth
01 Aug 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Dermal denticles: also called placoid scales, they’re the most primitiv...
How A Whale And A Bear Beat The System
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Megafauna: Large animals, usually over 45 Kgs. Anthropocene era: A pro...
How To Survive Poison
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Poison: A substance that is capable of causing illness or death when intr...
Why These Bears “Waste” Food
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Foraging: to search widely for food. Optimal Foraging Theory: A behavi...
How Fevers REALLY Work
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Fever: a rise in body temperature, usually caused by infection Heat sh...
Moving Plates
27 Jul 2025
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Plate Tectonics
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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How Long Did People Use To Live?
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Life Expectancy At Birth: The average number of years a newborn in a part...
We don't know what a tree is (and this video won't tell you)
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Wood: A bunch of cellulose fibers intertwined with lignin usually found i...
Why It's Good To Have A Weak Hand
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Handedness: the tendency to use one hand more than the other for specific...
An Unexpected Consequence of COVID
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Particulate matter: often abbreviated PM, it is the sum of all the tiny p...
The Lost Penis Enigma
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Amniote: Vertebrates whose embryos are enclosed in a thin sac. Cloaca:...
Mountain weather
20 Jul 2025
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Soil creep
19 Jul 2025
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Why We Faint (When Other Animals Don't)
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: "Fight or flight": an instinctive physiological response to a threatening...
How Do Some Waves Get SO Big?
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Amplitude - The distance between the crest and trough of a wave. Bathy...
The Ecology of Superheroes
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: carbon sequestration: the process of capturing and storing atmospheric ca...
Proteins: Explained
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Amino acids: are organic compounds that contain amino (–NH2) and carbox...
Which Will Kill You First?
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Hyperthermia: a medical condition where an individual's body temperature ...
Subterranean River
13 Jul 2025
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Chimps and Bonobos
12 Jul 2025
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Why "Nothing" Matters in Science
11 Jul 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Null result: a result in a scientific study that doesn’t support the hy...
The Problem With Life Expectancy
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Life Expectancy At Birth: The average number of years a newborn in a part...
I found the BEST coronavirus depiction (+ explanation)
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Virus: a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the ...
Dogs vs Cats: The Diversity Paradox
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: phenotypic diversity - the range of different observable traits in a cert...
Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Pandemic: A disease outbreak that spreads across the world. Exponentia...
Gigantopithecus
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Categorize Apes
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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How Firestorms Form
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Pyrocumulonimbus cloud - a type of cumulonimbus cloud that forms that for...
Why Most New Species Are Discovered By Amateurs
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Taxonomy: The branch of science concerned with classifying organisms T...
Does It Pay To Cheat?
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Life history strategy: How organisms allocate energy usage to maximize of...
The Plant That’s Full Of Metal
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Hyperaccumulator: a plant capable of growing in metalliferous soils and t...
The Best Pokémon (According to Science)
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Convergent evolution: the process whereby organisms not closely related (...
Cow Fences
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Wolf Fences
28 Jun 2025
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Dangerous Marshmallows?!
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Chemical reaction: a process that involves rearrangement of the molecular...
The Science of Roadkill
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Roadkill: The remains of animals killed by motor vehicles. Road ecolog...
Why Doesn't All Thunder Sound The Same?
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Shock wave: a sharp change of pressure in a narrow region traveling throu...
Can Pregnancy Tests Help Beat COVID-19?
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Early Pregnancy Test: A simple lateral flow assay that tests for the pres...
Why Hardwoods Are The Softest Woods
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Angiosperm: a plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed within a...
Beehive Fences
22 Jun 2025
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Orange Roughy
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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How To Hear Halfway Around The World
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Refraction: the bending of a sound wave based on changes in the wave's sp...
Why You’re More Likely To Die In Winter
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Crude Death Rate: The number of people in a population of a 1,000 who die...
Why Does This Shrimp Cost More Than A Car?
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Chromatophores: pigment-containing cells in the deeper layers of the skin...
Why Sewers Around the World Keep Overflowing
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Combined Sewer System: Sewers designed to collect domestic sewage and sto...
How To Go Extinct
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Extinction: The moment when the last individual of a particular species d...
Underdog Species
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Kangaroo Etymology
14 Jun 2025
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Why People Hate Hyenas
13 Jun 2025
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Will Gas Stations Survive?
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Gas station - a roadside establishment that sells gasoline, and diesel (A...
*If We Aren't Too Late
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: climate change damages, greenhouse gas emissions, climate mitigation Mi...
YouTube Is Misleading You. Help Us Make It Better.
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Misinformation: false information that is spread, regardless of intent to...
The Best Worst Energy Source
09 Jun 2025
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Tasmanian Tumors
08 Jun 2025
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Wallaby Milk
07 Jun 2025
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Is There A Better Way To Power Airplanes?
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Jet fuel - a liquid petroleum fuel with high specific energy and energy d...
Why You Can't Build A Clone Army... (Yet)
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Cell: The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism. Clon...
Why Wolves Don't Chirp
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: frequency - how often a wave occurs in a certain unit of time Hertz - ...
Why Do We STILL Use Lead Pipes?!
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Hard water: water with a high mineral content Soft water: water with a...
This Atom Can Predict The Future
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Monsoon: A seasonal increase in precipitation driven by atmospheric condi...
Poop vs. Pap
01 Jun 2025
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Opossum vs. Possum
31 May 2025
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The Extinction Happening Inside You
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Extinction: the termination of a kind of organism or group of kinds, usua...
How to Work From Home as a Team
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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How To Name A Disease (Like COVID-19)
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Coronaviruses (CoV): a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging...
Why Don't More Animals Eat Wood?
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Xylophagy: the eating of wood Lignin: a class of complex organic polym...
Where Does One Ocean End And Another Begin?
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: IHO: International Hydrographic Organization MinuteEarth is produced by...
Categorize Marsupials
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Vulture Food
24 May 2025
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How This River Made Chimps Violent
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Chimpanzee: A great ape native to tropical Africa that is one of humanity...
The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Rhizome: a continuously growing horizontal underground stem which puts ou...
How To Turn Poop Into Power
21 May 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Anaerobic digestion: a sequence of processes by which microorganisms brea...
You Have More Bones Than You Think
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Cartilage: The flexible connective tissue that is turned to bone by osteo...
Why It’s HARD To Bring A New Apple To Market
19 May 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: grafting: joining together a cut branch with a cut root of the same speci...
Most realistic dragon
18 May 2025
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Proportional dragons
17 May 2025
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Nobody Really Knows What A Concussion Is
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a progressive degenerative disease of t...
The Great Acceleration
15 May 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: The Great Acceleration - the dramatic increase in human activity, largely...
Can AI Help Us Identify Animals?
14 May 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Deep learning: a subset of machine learning in artificial intelligence th...
Smartphones: A New Model for Energy Efficiency?
13 May 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Dematerialization - using less (or no) material to deliver the same servi...
The Best Dragon (According to Science)
12 May 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Tetrapods: four-limbed (with a few exceptions, such as snakes which have ...
Sex Ratios
11 May 2025
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Asparagus Pee
10 May 2025
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How Much Air Can A Tree Hold?
09 May 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: carbon: element that makes up half of tree wood by weight. MinuteEarth ...
Why Are Adults So Bad At New Languages?
08 May 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Second-Language Acquisition: The process of a language that’s not the s...
How The Modern World Tricks Our Bodies Into Hurting Themselves
07 May 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Cyclooxygenase: An enzyme responsible for the production of thromboxane a...
Why Exercise Is Hard
06 May 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Physical activity - any bodily movement produced by the contraction of sk...
The Secret Global Sewer System
05 May 2025
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Waterlog - to saturate (a field) with water; a problem for most crops ...
Keeled dragons
04 May 2025
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