About this podcast
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.
Episodes
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- How can Giant Pterosaurs even fly? · 3 minThanks to the fossil record, we know that pterosaurs had wings with elongated hand bones, just like every other flying vertebrate. But simply having wings doesn’t mean you can…
- Why would these animals kill their siblings? · 2 minWould you have won in the shark-baby thunderdome? It’s common for siblings to fight – for food, for attention, or to establish dominance. In many cases, parents step in to make…
- Why do humans stop growing at a certain point, while other animals don’t? · 2 minMany bones have special layers of cells on each end known as "growth plates"; these cells are constantly dividing and turning into brand-new bone. That's what makes both you and…
- What does a mushroom get out of making animals trip? · 2 minHere are three of our best theories: The first is that fungi might not get anything from producing psilocybin. Maybe the compound is an evolutionary accident like our widow’s…
- What do YOU have in common with an Electric Eel? · 2 minAn 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 other…
- What is kangaroo care - and why is it one of the best ways to help save at-risk premature babies · 2 minOne 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…
- Milk Stealing · 2 minOne 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 delivered to…
- Why space rocks are so hard to find · 2 minThere 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 get to…
- How Do Birds Use GPS? · 2 minBirds 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 older…
- Birds have an embarrassing problem... · 2 minThis 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 have…
- Best Worst · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Synthetic Fuel · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Alternative Fuels · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Counting Fish · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Fish Evolution · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Collective Nouns · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- The Heaviest Part of a Forest Is NOT What You Think · 4 minTo learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Canopy: The uppermost layer of a forest, formed by the crowns and foliage of the tallest trees…
- most of the images that pop up in a Google Image search for pine trees aren’t pine trees. · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Not A Pine · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Hot Water 2 · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Hot Water · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- What's The Fewest People That Could Repopulate Earth? · 5 minTo learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Gene Pool: The total collection of different genes within a population. A larger gene pool means more…
- How cold can the human body get before it stops working? · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- What's the most heat the human body can take? · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- ALL THE APES, EXPLAINED 🦍🦧🐒 · 12 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Methanes molecular shape helps it trap heat! · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- This map shows the worlds animals! · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- This cat published a physics paper! · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- If a megalodon - the largest shark ever - fought a great white, who would win? · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Cloud Formation · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- What's ecological redundancy · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Learning Languages · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Exercise More · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Dying Old · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Feeling Pain · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Why colorblindness is much more common in males · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- How High Can Birds Fly? · 7 minTo learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Lift Coefficient: A dimensionless number that represents how effectively a wing generates lift based on…
- Why humans faint · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- If having one “good” hand is good, why don’t we have two? · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Why don’t animals wipe their butts · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Airplane travel is kind of the worst · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Could Squirtle exist in real life? · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Could Bulbasaur exist in real life? · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- How To Kill A Volcano · 4 minTo learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Conduit: A channel or passageway through which magma travels from a magma chamber to the surface…
- Babies Bones · 1 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Volcano Formation · 1 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- The Weird Reason Rabies Is So Deadly · 4 minTo learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Neurotropic: infects nerve tissue Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP): preventative medical treatment…
- Coffee webcam · 1 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- Coffee olympics · 1 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
- The most powerful volcanoes in the world - supervolcanoes, which can alter the entire earth’s climate with one eruption - require three things to get really explosive. · 2 minMinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info…
