Minute Earth
MinuteEarth
From the creators of the popular science show with millions of YouTube subscribers comes the MinuteEarth podcast. Every episode of the show dives deep into a science question you might not even know you had - but once you hear the answer, you’ll want to share it with everyone you know. Our team of scientists digs into the research and breaks it down into a short, entertaining explanation jam-packed with science facts and terrible puns. We’ll tell the incredible story of how monkeys crossed the Atlantic ocean on natural rafts, and we’ll explain why it gets hotter the deeper you dig underground.
Be sure to visit the podcast's website and support the creator: www.minuteearth.com
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Episodes
Are Scientists Going Extinct? 23.12.2025 5:24
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: AI: the general ability of computers to emulate human thought and perform tasks in real-world environments Machine learning: a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) that allows systems to learn and improve from data without being explicitly programmed MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC ...
Why Don’t All Rivers Make Canyons? 22.12.2025 4:21
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Canyon: a deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it. River equilibrium: a state in which a river's water flow and sediment transport are balanced. River incision: a natural process where a river cuts downward into its bed, deepening the channel Tectonic uplift: the geological process that occurs when the Earth...
Smallest Rodent 21.12.2025 1:16
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth...
Lemmings Suicide 20.12.2025 1:21
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth...
Why Haven't We Cured Cancer? 19.12.2025 3:54
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 genetic profiling. Functional Precision Medicine: A medical model that involves directly treating live tumor cells with drugs to gain information about a patient's tumor. HER2-positive cancer: A type of cancer caused by a specific ex...
Electrical Wires Made Of Bacteria?! 18.12.2025 3:40
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Bacterium: a member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms which have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease. Electron: a stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solid...
What Happens When Predators Disappear? 17.12.2025 4:03
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. Herbivore: an animal that feeds on plants. Top predator: a predator without natural predators of its own. Trophic cascade: an ecological phenomenon triggered by the addition or removal of top predators. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptun...
Why Don't Snakes Poison Themselves? 16.12.2025 3:44
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Antibody: a blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen. Antibodies combine chemically with substances which the body recognizes as alien, such as bacteria, viruses, and foreign substances in the blood. Globulin: any of a group of simple proteins soluble in salt solutions and forming a large fra...
Why Do Butterflies Bother Being Caterpillars? 15.12.2025 4:20
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Metamorphosis: a biological process by which an animal physically develops including birth transformation or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure. Holometabolous: a type of metamorphosis (also known as "complete metamorphosis") that involves four distinct stages: egg, l...
Hamsters vs Gerbil 14.12.2025 1:18
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth...
Categorize Mice 13.12.2025 1:12
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth...
How To Take A Dinosaur's Temperature 12.12.2025 4:54
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Clumped Isotopes: heavy isotopes that are bonded to other heavy isotopes. Ectotherm: any animal whose regulation of body temperature depends on external sources. Endotherm: an animal that is dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat. Isotope: each of two or more forms of the same element that contain equal nu...
The Species That Broke Evolution? 11.12.2025 4:03
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Stabilomorph: A species that retains a stable form over millions of years. Molecular Evolutionary Rate: The frequency with which DNA or protein sequences are fixed in a population. Ship of Theseus Paradox: A philosophical thought experiment that asks if an object is still the same if all of its original components are replace...
Why There Are No King Bees 10.12.2025 4:19
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Haplodiploidy: is a sex-determination system in which males develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid. Sex determination in honeybees: In honeybees, the drones (males) are entirely derived from the queen, their mother. The diploid queen has 32 chromosomes and the...
The Deadliest Thing At The Beach 09.12.2025 3:31
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Jetty: a breakwater constructed to protect or defend a harbor, stretch of coast, or riverbank. Rip current: a relatively strong, narrow current flowing outward from the beach through the surf zone and presenting a hazard to swimmers. Rip tide: a strong current caused by tidal flow in confined areas such as inlets and presenti...
ALL Plants Have Color Vision?! 08.12.2025 3:33
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Shade avoidance: changes in plant body form and function that occur in response to the light signals provided by neighboring vegetation Photoreceptors: light-sensitive proteins involved in the sensing and response to light in a variety of organisms Far-red light: light at the extreme red end of the visible spectrum, just befo...
Frogger 07.12.2025 1:23
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth...
Plowed Owls 06.12.2025 1:10
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth...
Why Monkeys Can Only Count To Four 05.12.2025 4:21
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Approximate number system: A cognitive system that supports the estimation of the magnitude of a group without relying on language or symbols. Violation of expectancy looking time measure: A technique used to determine if subjects were surprised by an outcome of an experiment based on the idea that surprising outcomes resulte...
The Truth About Petri Dishes 🧫 04.12.2025 5:00
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Petri dish: a shallow, circular, transparent dish with a flat lid, used for the culture of microorganisms. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like wha...
memes go viral cuz they're so sick 03.12.2025 4:21
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Basic reproduction number: a figure expressing the average number of cases of an infectious disease arising by transmission from a single infected individual, in a population that has not previously encountered the disease. Epidemic: a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. Meme: a...
How Does Birth Control Work? 02.12.2025 4:08
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Contraception: the use of devices, drugs, or surgery to prevent pregnancy - also known as birth control. Progestin: the synthetic form of progesterone, a sex hormone that plays a role in the menstrual cycle and pregnancy. Gametes: haploid reproductive cells including sperm and eggs. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios...
Why is the number of languages "increasing"? 01.12.2025 3:46
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Language death: when a language loses its last known native speaker. Species extinction: the termination of a species by the death of its last member. Ethnologue.com: the world’s foremost authority on the languages of the world and their current status. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC ...
Invasive Pythons 30.11.2025 1:12
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth...
Smooshed Snakes 29.11.2025 1:12
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth...
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