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How two butterflies became one
Here's why you shouldn't judge a butterfly species by its wing coloration.
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Why Does This Shrimp Cost More Than A Car?
Some aquarium hobbyists will pay $10,000 or more for a single shrimp because of the rarity of their colors or patterns.
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MinuteEarth Explains: Stuff That...Isn’t
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we find out that lots of what we thought we knew about the world around us isn’t quite right.
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*If We Aren't Too Late
We’ll each have at least $100,000 more in our piggy banks, on average, if we stop climate change than if we don’t.
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Big Changes in the Big Apple
Did you know that all living things change their environments? It's true. Beavers, deer, worms, and humans all change their environments. It just so happens that humans change our environments in big, obvious ways. In this episode,...
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MinuteEarth Explains: Food
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we examine the weird world of what we like to eat.
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Why Did T Rex Have Such Tiny Arms?
It's easy to assume that every trait - including stubby arms on a terrifying predator - must be beneficial, but the forces of evolution don't really work like that.
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Why Do We STILL Use Lead Pipes?!
We've known for millennia that lead pipes could make us sick, so why are we still drinking from them?
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Our Lungs Have A Fatal Flaw
Our respiratory systems do a great job of protecting us, but they are no match for the smallest pollution particles created by the modern world.
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Why "Nothing" Matters in Science
Null results often get a bad rap, sometimes characterized as a study "finding nothing," but there's a lot we can learn from studies whose results fail to support their hypotheses.
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Why People Hate Hyenas
Throughout history and around the world, most people dislike hyenas. But why?
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Screens are NOT the reason kids need glasses 👀
Way more kids have fuzzy vision these days because we spend less time in outdoor light, which makes our eyeballs longer.
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The Plant That’s Full Of Metal
The amount of metal some special plants are able to take up from the soil would be toxic enough to an average plant to kill it several times over.
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The Best Pokémon (According to Science)
There’s lots of debate as to which original starter Pokémon is the best fighter among squirtle, bulbasaur, charmander, and pikachu, but only one is the most biologically plausible.
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Why Do Humans Vomit So Much? 🤮
In an effort to protect us from getting killed by something we’ve ingested, our brain’s vomit control center processes a lot of information from several different places … and sometimes is a little overly cautious.
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Do Other Diseases Have "Long" Versions?
COVID isn’t the only virus to cause long-lasting symptoms. Other viruses - including the flu - can have similar enduring effects on our tissues and immune systems.
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Will Gas Stations Survive?
Although it’s not likely to happen soon, someday gas stations may be replaced by (or turn into) another type of fueling station, because no fuel or mode of transportation is forever
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How To Hear Halfway Around The World
Sounds in the ocean can travel more than 10,000 miles - that's halfway around the world! Here's how.
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Vampire Life is Hard
Blood-suckers may seem like they have it easy, but feeding on blood comes with a lot of challenges.
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The Science of Roadkill
Surprisingly, flattened fauna can teach us a lot about wildlife biology.
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Why Most New Species Are Discovered By Amateurs
Most new species are discovered by amateurs because nowadays non-professionals are actually better suited to the requirements of new species “discovery.”
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Why Exercise Is Hard
Because exercise isn't essential for short-term survival, we don't exercise enough, so we need to reincorporate purposeful physical activity into our lives.
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MinuteEarth Explains: Human Evolution
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we answer the question "why are you the way that you are?"