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This Is Not A Bug
It’s common to call creepy crawlies bugs, but because entomologists refer to a specific class of insects as bugs, it’s wrong to call other things bugs - right?
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Why Most Fossils Are Incomplete
In 1990, fossil collectors in South Dakota stumbled across a dinosaur that turned out to be a really big deal. Not just because it was a T. rex – basically the most popular dino out there – or because it ended up in Chicago’s famous...
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These Countries Are Cheating
By overcounting how much carbon their forests suck up, and undercounting how much carbon their industries release, countries undercount their total carbon emissions.
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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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When Tree Planting Goes Wrong
Trees are a super-efficient way to sequester carbon, but since planting the wrong trees in the wrong place can do more harm than good, we need to go about tree planting more carefully.
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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.
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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.
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TRANSPARENT Solar Panels?!
Infinitesimally small quantum dots can turn a window into a see-through solar panel!
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¡¿Pájaros que hibernan en lagos?!
Explicamos que las aves no hibernan en los lagos, ni migran hacia la Luna, pero se embarcan en viajes únicos, sobre los cuales los humanos hemos aprendido de formas muy ingeniosas. ¡Apóyanos en Patreon!...
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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.
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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.
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How Do Some Waves Get SO Big?
All over the world, giant wave breaks appear because of underwater geology that supercharges their wave energy.
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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.
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Why The Weather Is Worse At The Mall
Extreme weather sometimes happens in very specific areas thanks to extreme surface temperature differences.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Dogs vs Cats: The Diversity Paradox
Different dogs look incredibly different - but that doesn't mean they are necessarily more diverse.
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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.
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I found the BEST coronavirus depiction (+ explanation)
Ever found a fantastic coronavirus illustration that led him to learn about viral attachment and entry.
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The Extinction Happening Inside You
Our modern lifestyle and diet are leading to the extinction of parts of our microbiome, but we can use what we've learned from dealing with nearly-extinct macrobiota, like bald eagles, to understand the consequences and find solutions.
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How The Modern World Tricks Our Bodies Into Hurting Themselves
The same enzyme that used to save us is now killing us because the body reactions it catalyzes now cause more harm than good.
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Why Wolves Don't Chirp
Sounds that animals make can be really different, and it turns out that there's a reason why some species communicate with certain sounds.