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Where Does One Ocean End And Another Begin?
Earth's ocean water is continuous. How can we divide it into sections that are more useful?
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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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Why Sewers Around the World Keep Overflowing
The old combined sewer systems of many major cities are no match for modern storms and impermeable surfaces.
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Invasion Of The Earthworms!
Worms cause major changes to ecosystems, but those changes aren’t always new.ommunication.
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The Department of Redundancy Department
Who needs redundancy? Well, everyone, it turns out.
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The Actual Reason Men Die First
Because females often outlive males, behavior is often blamed - but there is a decent chance our sex chromosomes might be to blame instead.
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How to Work From Home as a Team
We've worked as a team - remotely - for seven years, and we're sharing some of our favorite tips for making it work.
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MinuteEarth Explains: Battle of the Sexes
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we take a look at how deep the divide between males and females actually goes.
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How Birds Fooled Military Radar
A technology to ignore birds on radar ended up being useful to study and conserve them.
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How We Evolved To Browse The Web
The decisions we make while we browse the internet are suprisingly similar to the ones animals make as they forage for food...here's why.
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Why We Faint (When Other Animals Don't)
Humans are the only animals known to faint due to triggers like shock, fear, or pain; this is due to a combination of our massive brains and upright stance.
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The Problem With Life Expectancy
In order to truly understand differences among animal lifespans, we need to stop thinking about a specific number and start thinking about a distribution.
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Can Pregnancy Tests Help Beat COVID-19?
The lab-on-a-stick that lets us know if we’re pregnant is a genius bit of technology that can be used to quickly determine everything from whether there are nuts in our chocolate to whether we have COVID.
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This Atom Can Predict The Future
Many of the bewildering correlations in our world - like that between Beryllium-7 and the Asian monsoon - are a result of huge and unseen forces that tie them together.
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Why You’re More Likely To Die In Winter
There’s a huge seasonal difference in death rates that is propelled by a variety of factors including pathogen behavior and anatomical response to temperature changes.
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Can AI Help Us Identify Animals?
New technology has revolutionized how we study wild animals, but it has also bogged down scientists with data...luckily, there's an *intelligent* solution.
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Why Are There So Many Tigers In Texas?
Why there will likely soon be more tigers in backyards in Texas than in the wilds of Asia.
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How We Make MinuteEarth Videos (Behind the Scenes)
An outline of how we make our videos.
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Why Do India And China Have So Many People?
India and China have so many people today because they’re good for farming and big, but they’ve always been that way, so they’ve actually had a huge proportion of Earth’s people for thousands of years.
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Why It’s HARD To Bring A New Apple To Market
Fruit trees are unpredictable and grow slowly, and consumer tastes are fickle, so successful new varieties of fruit are rare
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The Secret Global Sewer System
Ditches and drain pipes help crops survive but can negatively impact the broader landscape.
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Why Are Adults Bad At New Languages?
Learning a new language as an adult is harder than doing so as a child because adults usually aren’t as invested and often use the wrong strategies.
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Are Plastics Too Strong?
The same chemistry that makes plastic tough, light and flexible also makes it nearly impossible to get rid of, because it’s hard to break those resilient chemical bonds.