MinuteEarth
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.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 2 minutes
- Episodes
- 336
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics
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Pandemic: A disease outbreak that spreads across the world.
Exponential Growth: Growth that occurs when a value increas…
00:03:37 |
Mon 07 Jul 2025
Gigantopithecus
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00:01:16 |
Sun 06 Jul 2025
Categorize Apes
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00:01:14 |
Sat 05 Jul 2025
How Firestorms Form
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Pyrocumulonimbus cloud - a type of cumulonimbus cloud that forms that forms above wildfires and even volcanic eruptions, w…
00:03:34 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
Why Most New Species Are Discovered By Amateurs
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Taxonomy: The branch of science concerned with classifying organisms
Taxonomic Impediment: The gaps in our taxonomic kn…
00:03:17 |
Thu 03 Jul 2025
Does It Pay To Cheat?
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Life history strategy: How organisms allocate energy usage to maximize offspring.
Parental Investment: Any non-genetic …
00:03:28 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
The Plant That’s Full Of Metal
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Hyperaccumulator: a plant capable of growing in metalliferous soils and to accumulate extraordinarily high amounts of heav…
00:03:33 |
Tue 01 Jul 2025
The Best Pokémon (According to Science)
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Convergent evolution: the process whereby organisms not closely related (not monophyletic), independently evolve similar t…
00:04:09 |
Mon 30 Jun 2025
Cow Fences
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00:01:20 |
Sun 29 Jun 2025
Wolf Fences
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00:01:16 |
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Dangerous Marshmallows?!
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Chemical reaction: a process that involves rearrangement of the molecular or ionic structure of a substance
Exothermic …
00:04:06 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
The Science of Roadkill
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Roadkill: The remains of animals killed by motor vehicles.
Road ecology: The study of how roads impact the surrounding …
00:03:28 |
Thu 26 Jun 2025
Why Doesn't All Thunder Sound The Same?
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Shock wave: a sharp change of pressure in a narrow region traveling through a medium, especially air, caused by explosion …
00:03:53 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Can Pregnancy Tests Help Beat COVID-19?
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Early Pregnancy Test: A simple lateral flow assay that tests for the presence of a particular hormone in urine.
Lateral…
00:03:29 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
Why Hardwoods Are The Softest Woods
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Angiosperm: a plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed within a carpel.
Gymnosperm: a plant that has seeds un…
00:04:08 |
Mon 23 Jun 2025
Beehive Fences
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00:01:18 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
Orange Roughy
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00:01:18 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
How To Hear Halfway Around The World
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Refraction: the bending of a sound wave based on changes in the wave's speed
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00:03:52 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Why You’re More Likely To Die In Winter
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Crude Death Rate: The number of people in a population of a 1,000 who die every year. The 2020 rate for the entire world i…
00:02:53 |
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Why Does This Shrimp Cost More Than A Car?
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Chromatophores: pigment-containing cells in the deeper layers of the skin of animals like shrimp
Restricted availabilit…
00:03:50 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
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