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Early Earth Microbes May Have Eaten Raw Meteorites
Is it possible that life on earth began with an out of this world rock buffet?
PBS
Where Did Water Come From?
Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all super low on water – so where did ours come from and why do we have so much of it? We think our water came from a few unlikely sources: meteorites, space dust, and even the sun.
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Why Are Craters Always Round?
If you take a look at all the impact craters in our solar system, the vast majority are nice, neat circles. But why? Meteorites and asteroids strike planets and moons at all sorts of angles. Where are all the elliptical craters?
MinuteEarth
Should More Species Be Extinct?
Watch these amazing rewilding videos from our friends at Planet Wild, in which they’re saving Europe’s cutest bird from extinction or resurrecting a dying forest.
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3 World-Changing Biology Experiments
Hank tells us the stories of three experiments in biology that, with creativity and luck, changed science & the world with it in their work to solve the mysteries of the universe.
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The World's Most Abundant Mineral, and Oddball Whales
SciShow News takes you to the depths of the Earth, where the world’s most abundant mineral is found, and to the Arabian Sea, where a strange population of whales has been living in isolation for 70,000 years!
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Our Smelly Solar System
Sight, sound, and yes, taste, have all helped humanity better understand space, but what about smells? Scientists think we have a pretty good idea of what some places smell like, and decoding astronomical aromas can be a good way of...
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A Violent Origin Story for Tiny Space Diamonds | SciShow News
Scientists may have discovered some clues to two vastly different anomalies. Microscopic diamonds inside of meteors, and why ancient black holes are so massive.
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Epic Meteor Adventure and Ozone Mystery
SciShow explores two celestial mysteries: the origins of a meteorite that crashed into a house in California, and who's releasing chemicals into the atmosphere that were banned more than 25 years ago?
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Quiz Show: SciShow Host Showdown
Hank Green and Michael Aranda must put their knowledge of hearing, seeing, and tasting to the test in order to win this quiz show written and hosted by the inimitable Blake de Pastino and his sidekick, Smart Blake.
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Don't Worry About That Asteroid That Might Hit This Year | SciShow News
That asteroid the headlines have been warning people about isn't likely to actually hit us, and scientists might have solved a mystery that could save lives: the relationship between tides and earthquakes.
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Meteor Explosion
Hank talks about the search for pieces of a special meteoroid that exploded over California & Nevada last month.
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The Moon May Have Once Been Habitable! SciShow News
It's possible that the moon might have been able to support life billions of years ago, and scientists are using meteorites to learn about the history of our sun.
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How Do You Trace a Meteorite Back To Its Home?
It's virtually impossible to tell where a meteorite comes from, but in 2018, scientists were able to pull a feat of forensic astronomy and do just that.
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NASA Just Launched a New, Planet-Hunting Telescope!
From launching a new satellite, to finding diamonds from a lost world, researchers have been hard at work transforming how we think about our planet, the solar system, and the rest of the universe.
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3 Ways We Know What the Ancient Solar System Was Like
The New Horizons spacecraft has given us lots of clues about the early days of our solar system, but we don't always have to travel billions of kilometers to peer into our past.
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3 Times We Thought We Found Aliens
Earthlings have been searching for alien life for centuries, and more than a few times we were confident that we'd found evidence, but to err is human after all.
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The Sweetest Rocks in Space
Sugars aren’t just for munching and crunching, they also make up our genetic code! So what does it mean to find sugars INSIDE meteorites?
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3 Weird Meteorites (Whose Weirdness Was Instructive)
Meteorites are extraterrestrial rocks that have ended up on earth. All of them are literally 'out of this world,' but here are three of the strangest of these aliens.
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Russian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
A meteorite crashed into earth!!!! This wasn't the first time and it won't be the last, but it is the first time such an event was captured by SO MANY CAMERAS! But besides providing the world with some hilarious, frightening, and amazing...
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Mind the (Solar System's) Gap
Giant disks around baby stars filled with gas and dust provide the material to make all sorts of planets, and new evidence proves that our solar system’s had a massive gap in it! And the water vapor in Jupiter’s moon, Europa, might not...
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The Mystery of the Black Diamond
There are still lots of unsolved mystery about carbonados ("black diamonds"), and geologists even think those mystery rocks come from outside of Earth.
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MinuteEarth Explains: Space
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we travel beyond Earth and explore some of our favorite mysteries about space.
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The Only Non-Human Mammal that Farms
This week, we discovered that some gophers are not the pests they’re made out to be, perhaps even sharing some of the farming behaviors of humans. And a martian rock a million years in the making finally has its origin story.