MinuteEarth

Nov 13 2024 25 ep. 4 mins 68

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Science and stories about our awesome planet! Our staff: Lizah van der Aart, Sarah Berman, Cameron Duke, Arcadi Garcia, David Goldenberg, Melissa Hayes, Alex Reich, Henry Reich, Peter Reich, Ever Salazar, Leonardo Souza, Kate Yoshida and Jasper Palfree. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC

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Why Don’t All Rivers Make Canyons?

Nov 13 2024 3 mins

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Why Haven't We Cured Cancer?

Oct 31 2024 3 mins

To learn more about Florida International University's research, visit https://FIU.edu A person’s genes alone don’t tell us enough about how to most effectively treat their cancer. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Precision Medicine: A medical model that tailors specific drugs to specific patients based on

How These Bacteria Bridge Two Worlds

Oct 16 2024 3 mins

Most living things on Earth need oxygen to survive, but scientists discovered a species of bacteria that uses oxygen totally differently from every other organism on Earth. To learn more about Aarhus University's research on cable bacteria, click here: https://bio.au.dk/forskning/forskningscentre/center-for-elektromikrobiologi-cem LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about thi

What Happens When Predators Disappear?

Oct 03 2024 4 mins

To learn more about how Florida International University's research, visit https://FIU.edu A world without predators. It sounds like a safer, happier world, but come on, this is SCIENCE… LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

Why Petri Dishes Are The Best AND The Worst

Petri dishes are filled with nutrient agar and used as food for bacteria - but only a few species will actually grow on them. And if we can't grow them, then we can't study them either. Want to know more? Have a look at the linked video!

Why Don't Snakes Poison Themselves?

Sep 24 2024 3 mins

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Why Do Butterflies Bother Being Caterpillars?

Sep 11 2024 4 mins

Go to https://mondly.app/minuteearth to get 96% off of lifetime access to 41 languages and start learning today. It seems wild that some animals basically trade in their bodies for new ones during their lifetime, but it's actually really common – and it makes a lot of sense. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - M

How To Take A Dinosaur's Temperature

Aug 29 2024 4 mins

Download the Tab For Democracy browser extension at https://tabfordemocracy.org/minuteearth2 Despite the seemingly basic things we don't know about dinosaurs, we do know some surprising things – like their body temperatures. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Clumped Isotopes: heavy isotopes that are bonded to o

Why don't we eat Carnivores?

The animals we eat generally don't eat other animals - why is that?

The Species That Broke Evolution?

Aug 15 2024 4 mins

The first 500 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/minuteearth08241 The ancestors of gars, horseshoe crabs and coelacanths looked almost the same as their modern relatives. Darwin called species like these “living fossils'' because they seem like they are evolutionarily frozen in time. But Darwin was wrong. LEARN MORE *************