MinuteEarth
What Is The Best Shape For A Farm?
The shape of a farm can tell you a surprising amount about the land it's on and the people that use it.
SciShow
Meet the Mad Haterpillar with Henry Reich from Minute Physics
Hank faces off against Minute Physics's Henry Reich in a battle of eccentricities, fashion, and plant puns.
MinuteEarth
How Many Mass Extinctions Have There Been?
Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here are some keywords/phrases to get your googling started: - Mass Extinction Event: a significant, global decrease in the diversity of life - "Big 5": The five biggest mass...
MinuteEarth
Where Do Our Drugs Come From?
The incredible chemical weapon-making abilities of fungi, bacteria, and plants have created a diverse array of compounds that are useful to humans.
MinuteEarth
Why Are There Clouds?
Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here are some key words/phrases to get your googling started: - Lifting Condensation Level (LCL): The altitude at which the water vapor in rising air begins to condense - Adiabatic...
MinuteEarth
Should We Grow Human Organs In Pigs?
An amazing new technology will let scientists grow new kidneys for patients using their own stem cells inside of pigs.
MinuteEarth
We don't know what a tree is (and this video won't tell you)
It turns out that defining what is and isn't a “tree” is way harder than it seems.
MinuteEarth
Our Best View Of Bacteria Is...From Space?!
Observing the effects of microbes using satellites can give us all sorts of useful information about life on Earth ... and other planets too.
MinuteEarth
TRANSPARENT Solar Panels?!
Infinitesimally small quantum dots can turn a window into a see-through solar panel!
MinuteEarth
The Secret Weapon That Could Help Save Bees
Honeybees are dying from parasites, pesticides, and poor nutrition, but we can help them in a number of ways, including by encouraging them to make a homemade antibiotic.
MinuteEarth
Smartphones: A New Model for Energy Efficiency?
The way smartphones made many devices nonessential is a model for a new way to think about improving energy efficiency.
MinuteEarth
How Do Some Waves Get SO Big?
All over the world, giant wave breaks appear because of underwater geology that supercharges their wave energy.
MinuteEarth
Unintended Consequences | MinuteEarth Explains
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we learn that for pretty much every action we humans take, there’s an unintended consequence we didn’t see coming.
SciShow
Meet the Mad Haterpillar with Henry Reich from Minute Physics
Meet the Mad Haterpillar with Henry Reich from Minute Physics
MinuteEarth
Why The Weather Is Worse At The Mall
Extreme weather sometimes happens in very specific areas thanks to extreme surface temperature differences.
MinuteEarth
How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse
Today's wildfires burn, on average, twice the amount of land they did in 1970. The reason? We've been working too hard to put them out. Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here's a keyword/phrase to get your googling...
MinuteEarth
Why Don't More Animals Eat Wood?
Wood is abundant and full of energy, but outside of some insects, almost no animals eat it because the stuff it's made of is hard to break down
MinuteEarth
Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics
Certain cognitive biases cause humans to make unsafe decisions in a pandemic, making a terrible disease even worse.
MinuteEarth
Why Is Poop Brown And Pee Yellow?
The pigments in our food all get destroyed on their way through our digestive system...so where do the colours of our poop and pee come from?
MinuteEarth
How This River Made Chimps Violent
When a group of apes got split apart, slight differences in their new environments led to big differences in future generations.
MinuteEarth
Dogs vs Cats: The Diversity Paradox
Different dogs look incredibly different - but that doesn't mean they are necessarily more diverse.
MinuteEarth
How To Go Extinct
Our new evolution simulator reveals that extinction often happens when conditions change quickly.
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MinuteEarth Explains: Size
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we tackle the science of size.