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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.
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Why Hardwoods Are The Softest Woods
Not all hardwood trees have hard wood and softwoods soft wood, because these terms denote their taxonomic ancestry, not the wood's actual hardness.
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Why You Can't Build A Clone Army... (Yet)
Because of the way genetic reprogramming works, it’s hard to make one clone based on an adult cell, and it’s almost impossible to make a second-generation one.
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Is There A Better Way To Power Airplanes?
It’s hard to replace jet fuel because the alternatives aren’t energetic enough, are too dangerous, or aren’t yet being made at scale.
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The Super Secrets of Sewage
In 2020, many cities started monitoring wastewater for viruses, and there are a lot of non-virus reasons to keep doing it.
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Extreme Weather | MinuteEarth Explains
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we take a look at some of the most extreme weather on Earth and its consequences.
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The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World
Bamboo is the world’s fastest growing plant thanks to the cell elongation process it shares with all grasses and its unique cell wall layering adaptation, allowing it to shoot up to 100 ft (30m) in just 8 weeks.
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SciShow Talk Show: Henry Reich & Rook the Raven
Hello and welcome to SciShow Talk Show where we talk to interesting people about interesting things! This week we discuss why we know why we don't know how bicycles stay up with Minute Physics host Henry Reich. Special guest Jessi...
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The Best Worst Energy Source
Although coal is such an amazing energy source that we've kept using it despite the harm it causes, today we may be better poised to stop using it than at any previous time in history.
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Why Biodiversity Is Good For The Economy
Research suggests that more diverse ecosystems are better for the bottom line.
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Why Doesn't All Thunder Sound The Same?
We've all experienced thunder, but what ARE all those claps, booms, and rumbles?
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Why Water Dissolves (Almost) Everything
Water can dissolve more substances than anything else on earth...so why doesn't it dissolve everything away?
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MinuteEarth Explains: Cats vs Dogs
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we learn more about the planet’s two favorite pets.
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Which Is Worse?
A broken bone might seem worse than a sprain, but you'll get over it much more quickly.
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The Cruel Irony Of Air Conditioning
The technology we use to keep cool is heating the world in a vicious feedback cycle, so we need to improve it and use it less.