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.
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October 14, 2025 • 4 mins
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Alkaloid: any of a class of nitrogenous organic compounds of plant origin which have pronounced physiological actions on humans.
Allelopathy: the chemical inhibition of one plant (or other organism) by another, due to the release into the environment of substances acting as germination or growth inhibitors.
Caffeine: a crystalline compound that is fo...
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October 13, 2025 • 5 mins
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October 12, 2025 • 1 min
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October 11, 2025 • 1 min
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October 10, 2025 • 3 mins
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Cause of death: the specific injury or disease that leads to death.
Death certificate: an official statement, signed by a physician, of the cause, date, and place of a person's death.
Geriatrics: a medical specialty focused on providing care for the unique health needs of older adults.
Old age: the range of ages nearing and surpassing the life exp...
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October 9, 2025 • 3 mins
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Alternative mating strategy: a strategy used by male or female animals, often with distinct phenotypes, that differs from the prevailing mating strategy.
Dependent selection: an evolutionary process by which the fitness of a phenotype or genotype depends on the phenotype or genotype composition of a given population.
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October 8, 2025 • 4 mins
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Prion: an abnormal pathogenic agent that is transmissible and able to induce abnormal folding of specific normal cellular proteins called prion proteins that are found most abundantly in the brain.
Spongiform encephalopathies: a group of rare degenerative brain disorders caused by prions and characterized by tiny holes that give the brain a “spongy” app...
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October 7, 2025 • 3 mins
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Nerve: a whitish fiber or bundle of fibers that transmits impulses of sensation to the brain or spinal cord, and impulses from these to the muscles and organs.
Nerve impulse: a signal transmitted along a nerve fiber. It consists of a wave of electrical depolarization that reverses the potential difference across the nerve cell membranes.
Referred pai...
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October 6, 2025 • 4 mins
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Central pivot irrigation: an irrigation system that moves in a circular pattern around a central pivot point
Contour farming: tilling sloped land along lines of consistent elevation in order to conserve rainwater and to reduce soil losses from erosion
Strip cropping: partitioning a field into long, narrow strips which are alternated in a crop rotatio...
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October 5, 2025 • 1 min
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October 4, 2025 • 1 min
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October 3, 2025 • 4 mins
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Comorbidity: the simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions in a patient.
Schistosomiasis: a disease caused by liver flukes that has affected humans for more than 100,000 years.
Meta-analysis: an examination of data from a number of independent studies of the same subject, in order to determine overall trends.
Prehistory: ...
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October 2, 2025 • 3 mins
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Great basin bristlecone pine tree: a species of pine tree that includes many of the longest-lived individual trees on Earth.
Bark beetles: the common name for a subfamily of beetles that has destroyed millions of acres of forest across the Western United States.
Terpenes: waxy chemicals that increase wood density in certain pine trees.
Bark morph...
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October 1, 2025 • 4 mins
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Black carbon: groups of linked carbon atoms.
Fallout: radioactive particles that are carried into the atmosphere after a nuclear explosion or accident and gradually fall back as dust or in precipitation.
Jet stream: a narrow variable band of very strong predominantly westerly air currents encircling the globe several miles above the earth.
Radiati...
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September 30, 2025 • 4 mins
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Afforestation: the process of introducing trees and tree seedlings to an area that has previously not been forested.
Carbon sequestration: a process by which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and held in solid or liquid form.
Ecological restoration: the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or ...
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September 29, 2025 • 3 mins
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Overpopulation: a situation in which there are too many people for the amount of food, materials, and space available.
Underpopulation: a situation in which there are too few people to realize the economic potential of an area or support its population's standard of living.
Exponential growth: a pattern of data that shows greater increases with passi...
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September 28, 2025 • 1 min
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC
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September 27, 2025 • 1 min
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September 26, 2025 • 3 mins
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Calorie: the energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water through 1°C (now usually defined as 4.1868 joules).
Energy: power derived from the utilization of physical or chemical resources, especially to provide light and heat or to work machines.
Joule: the SI unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one newton when it...
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September 25, 2025 • 4 mins
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Chemical element: is a species of atoms that have a given number of protons in their nuclei. Chemical elements cannot be broken down into simpler substances by any chemical reaction.
Atom: is the smallest unit of ordinary matter that forms a chemical element.
Molecule: is a group of two or more atoms held together by attractive forces known as chem...
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