MinuteEarth
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Four-limbed dragons
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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How We Evolved To Browse The Web
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Optimality models: tools used to evaluate the costs and benefits of diffe...
Our Best View Of Bacteria Is...From Space?!
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Microbe - an organism (such as a bacterium or protozoan) of microscopic o...
The Bacteria That Made Life Possible Is Now Killing Us
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Cyanobacteria: aquatic photosynthesizing bacteria often erroneously call ...
The Cruel Irony Of Air Conditioning
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Refrigerant - a substance used in air conditioners & refrigerators for it...
Why We Should Invest In Rat Massage
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Baloo
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Wood Lignin
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Monoclonal Antibodies | How to Turn Cancer Against Itself
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Monoclonal antibodies: antibodies that are made by identical immune cells th...
Why you should abandon some of your dreams
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: action crisis: part of the process of disengaging from a goal, once diffi...
Why kids skip school (& what to do about it)
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Truancy: intentional absence from school without permission. MinuteEarth is ...
This Country Has Something Everyone Else Wants
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Phosphorus - a chemical element used in explosives, matches, and fertilizers...
The Secrets of Extreme Breath Holding
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Static Apnea: Holding your breath without swimming or moving. Apneist: Some...
Panda Coloring
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Grolar Bears
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Is Lyme Disease Getting Worse?
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Can't We Get Power From Waves?
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Wave energy converter - a device for turning the mechanical energy of ocean ...
You Are A Fish
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Phylogenetic tree: a branching diagram or "tree" showing the evolutionary re...
The Problem With Concrete
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Portland cement - the most common type of cement used worldwide, made with l...
Why Earthquakes Are So Hard To Predict
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Earthquake: A violent shaking of the earth, usually due to movements of tect...
Black Bears
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Let’s Categorize Bears
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Are Your Fingerprints Unique?
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Fingerprint: The markings on the skin on the last joint of the thumb or fing...
The Bird Poop That Changed The World
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Guano: seabird (or bat) poop. From the indigenous Peruvian word “wanu”,...
These Names Can Kill Animals
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Are Fewer People Getting Appendicitis?
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Fecalith: A stony mass of feces inside a person’s intestinal tract. Appen...
Why Do You Make So Many Poop Videos? (& Other Questions)
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Lion’s Mane
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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River Timelapse
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Secret Weapon That Could Help Save Bees
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Propolis: a kind of bee glue made up of resins and beeswax, rich in flavonoi...
Why Malaria Isn’t Just A Tropical Disease
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Anthropophily: an organism’s propensity to feed on humans rather than othe...
Why Do Some Animals Eat Poop?
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Coprophagy: Consuming feces Allocoprophagy: Consuming others’ feces Auto...
Why Are There Penguins At The Equator?
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Net Primary Production (NPP): the amount of primary production that organism...
Why Earth Has Two Levels | Hypsometric Curve
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Hypsometric Curve: Basically, a chart that shows the proportions of surface ...
Carbonaceous Chondrite
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Planet Formation
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Similarity Trap
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Cladistics: A method of recreating evolutionary trees based on evidence abou...
Rise Of The Mesopredator🎵
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Food Web: the feeding relationships between animals that determine how energ...
How Long Can We Live?
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Mortality plateau: the leveling out of the mortality rate that is observed at...
When Trees Go Nuts
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Mast Year: A year in which all the plants of a particular species in a regio...
Why You Shouldn't Give Ginger To Monkeys (and other animal sayings)
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Sunshower: A meteorological phenomenon in which the sunshines while rain is ...
Mountain Sink
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Mars River
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Milk Is Just Filtered Blood
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Mammal: Endothermic vertebrates that nurse their young. Lactation: The secr...
Are Plastics Too Strong?
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Polymer: A substance whose molecular structure consists of large numbers of ...
How Much Food Is There On Earth?
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Food stock: the total amount of any particular food existing at any point in...
Is It Safe To Get Your DNA Tested?
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Personal Genetic Analysis: Direct-to-consumer DNA testing, usually through m...
Why Electroshock Therapy Is Back
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Electroshock therapy: the original name for treating severe depression with ...
Animal Behavior
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Colliding Plates
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Our Favorite Crops Live Fast and Die Young
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Annual: a plant that typically lives for a year or less Biennial: a plant t...
A Disease's Guide to World Domination
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Direct transmission: occurs when a pathogen is transmitted to a new host by ...
Why Do Birds Migrate Like This?
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Migration: The seasonal movement of a population of animals from one area to...
Are "Acts of God" Disappearing?
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Act of God: A natural disaster that is outside of human influence or control...
Why Pets Have Surprisingly Small Brains
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Domesticated animal: a species of animal bred by humans over generations to ...
Tongue Tanning
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Leather Making
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Do Some Animals Get Gigantic?
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Spiracles: External respiratory openings on insects Carboniferous Period: T...
Why Bird Penises Are So Weird
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Sex chromosome: A chromosome involved in determining the sex of an individua...
Where Do Our Drugs Come From?
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Bioprospecting: the systematic search for and development of new sources of c...
Why Do Female Hyenas Have Pseudo-Penises?!
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Pseudopenis: a structure that resembles a penis but is developmentally (and ...
Why Farming is Broken (And Always Has Been)
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Annual plant: living for a year or less, perpetuating itself by seed Perenn...
Avoid Tannins
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Rabbit Poop
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Do India And China Have So Many People?
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Is Syrup Sticky?
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Our Definition For “Moon” Is Broken (Collab. w/ MinutePhysics)
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Moon: a natural satellite of a satellite of a star. Satellite: A celestial ...
UPSIDE-DOWN Rivers On Mars?! (Response to MinutePhysics)
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Inverted relief: a topographic feature, such as an old riverbed, that has re...
TRANSPARENT Solar Panels?!
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Solar window: a window that functions like an ordinary window but also gener...
Cassowary Poop
23 Feb 2025
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Gorilla Poop
22 Feb 2025
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Why It Sucks to Be a Male Hyena
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Sex role reversed species: a species in which males and females exhibit roles...
Invasion Of The Earthworms!
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Invasive species: A non-native species that causes harm to the ecosystem. B...
Why So Many Meteorites Come From The Same Place
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Asteroid: A rocky body smaller than a planet that is orbiting the sun. Mete...
What Nuclear Bombs Taught Us About Whales
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Infrasound: sound waves too low in frequency for humans to hear. The CTBTO s...
Why Does Wine Make Your Mouth Feel Dry?
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Tannin: a yellow or brownish chemical present in some plant tissues, used in...
Poop Composition
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Quokka Mom
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Is it a bee, a wasp, a fly, or a moth?
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Mullerian mimicry: a type of mimicry in which two or more animals with defen...
Why Apple Pie Isn't American
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Food: a nutritious substance we eat or drink to maintain life and growth Do...
Why Most Rain Never Reaches The Ground
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Virga: an observable shaft of precipitation falling from a cloud that evapor...
Why Don't Sled Dogs Ever Get Tired?
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Glycolysis: The process by which glycogen is broken down into energy. Anaer...
Why Don’t Sheep Shrink In The Rain?
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Fiber: a threadlike structure forming part of the muscular, nervous, connect...
Nutritious Poop
09 Feb 2025
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Bald Vultures
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Some Molecules Have Evil Twins
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Enantiomers: Molecules that are mirror images of each other. Chirality: A g...
How Cats Became our Feline Overlords (ft. It's Okay To Be Smart)
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Puma: The big cat with the largest home range. Felix silvestris: The wildca...
What Makes A Dinosaur?
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Systema Naturae: A 1735 book by Carl Linnaeus that outlined his hierarchical...
Why Is A Group Of Crows Called A “Murder”?
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Collective Noun: A noun that denotes a group of individuals. Terms of Vener...
Ambergris: Why Perfume Makers Love Constipated Whales
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Sperm Whale: (Physeter macrocephalus) The largest toothed-whale, found in oc...
Oxbow Lake
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Square Cube
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Are Snakes So Creepy?
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Ophidiophobia: The abnormal fear of snakes Lateral Undulation: Waves of lat...
Why Did T Rex Have Such Tiny Arms?
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Evolutionary Mechanisms: Forces that change the frequency of genes in popula...
Why Is Poop Brown And Pee Yellow?
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Red blood cells (RBCs), also called erythrocytes, are the most common type o...
Should We Grow Human Organs In Pigs?
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Organ transplantation - surgically transferring an organ from one person int...
Why Don't Americans Eat Reindeer?
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Reindeer - the smaller, (semi-)domesticated version/subspecies of reinde...
Cannibal Hamsters
26 Jan 2025
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Air Conditioners
25 Jan 2025
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How These Sea Shells Know the Weather in Greenland
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Foraminifera: a class of single-celled marine organisms – protists, not ...