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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What do YOU have in common with an Electric Eel?
#11 trending · Earth Sciences
An electric eel can deliver a shock of as much as 860 volts, which is about seven times higher than the voltage of the average US power outlet. That’s enough to paralyze
Oct 25 1 min
What is kangaroo care - and why is it one of the best ways to help save at-risk premature babies
#50 trending · Earth Sciences
One of the best ways to help save at-risk premature babies is to have their parents spend hours snuggling them to their bare chests; it's called kangaroo care because the
Oct 24 1 min
Milk Stealing
One of the strangest-ever crime sprees hit a small town in England in 1921. It wasn't murder or bank robbery - instead, people were finding that the milk bottles delivere
Oct 18 1 min
Why space rocks are so hard to find
There are a few reasons space rocks are so hard to find. For starters, more than two thirds of the Earth is covered with water, so for all the meteorites that actually ge
Oct 17 1 min
How Do Birds Use GPS?
Birds are incredible navigators that can travel half the world to find the same patch of forest or ponds every single year.
Many birds learn their migration routes from
Oct 11 1 min
Birds have an embarrassing problem...
This bird has a superpower most animals don’t have: it can fly. And the reason birds can fly is because every part of their body is optimized for an airborne life.
Birds
Oct 10 1 min
Best Worst
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Oct 4 1 min
Synthetic Fuel
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Oct 3 1 min
Alternative Fuels
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Sep 27 1 min
Counting Fish
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Sep 26 2 min
Fish Evolution
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Sep 20 1 min
Collective Nouns
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Sep 19 2 min
The Heaviest Part of a Forest Is NOT What You Think
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Canopy: The uppermost layer of a forest, formed by the crowns and foliage of the tallest trees
Sep 14 4 min
most of the images that pop up in a Google Image search for pine trees aren’t pine trees.
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Sep 13 1 min
Not A Pine
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Sep 12 1 min
Hot Water 2
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Sep 6 1 min
Hot Water
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Sep 5 1 min
What's The Fewest People That Could Repopulate Earth?
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Gene Pool: The total collection of different genes within a population. A larger gene pool mea
Aug 31 4 min
How cold can the human body get before it stops working?
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Aug 30 1 min
What's the most heat the human body can take?
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Aug 29 1 min
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This feed used to have complete video-audio content. I loved the super cute animations and the content was very engaging. But after years of hiatus, it came back with an audio only feed, most of them if not all just extracted audio from old video recordings. You can feel that they were produced to accompany some visual. Often the audio cannot stand alone and become meaningless.
Sillyvalley · Feb 2025
Todays episode asked if it was safe to get your DNA tested. You gave some bad advice with some good advice. First, the best advice is to not freely provide your DNA to anyone. Do you really want Big Brother being able to track what you do as time moves on and government rules or behavior change? How about the hackers? It isn’t like all breaches are because of poor passwords. How can you trust any company who says they will delete your data at your request? Are you going to go on their word? How do you know they honored that? Do you have a top-level administrative account to audit their databases, servers, file systems, and backups? You are simply trusting them. Bad way to go.
The only good thing you said in this was to use a different username\email address and password for any account you setup. However, You are fooling yourself if you think this makes you safe in this scenario.
Capt Benjamin Sisko · Mar 2025
Thank you for teaching me about the earth and the wonder things about life,This might sound a little bit crazy but you teach me more then teacher ever has,and Im 12! Well thank you for taking your time to read this minute earth.Keep making videos!
Chris of Ohio · May 2013
Wow—the podcast on measuring the speed of light in a microwave was very frustrating as too much referenced a video I could not see. I am guessing this can be watched on YouTube. But I’m not watching it there, I am listening to it on my favorite podcast app. It would be great if you could write copy that doesn’t directly reference visuals that we can’t see. You could easily write your copy so it doesn’t blatantly show off that you’re just repurposing a video for audio audiences. I get that it makes financial sense but write your copy to compensate for that. It’s very frustrating to want to learn something but I can’t because you aren’t writing for audio. The narrator literally said “ the speed of light” without telling us what it was. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Otherwise, it’s a good podcast with interesting information. I wish the commercials weren’t as long or longer than the content sometimes. The other day the content was like two sentences.
Nerdy Pete · Jan 2025
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