MinuteEarth

Épisode 1 - The Story of Our Planet

8 mars 2013

Agriculture, hula hoops, SARS, and THIS video: how long did they take to get around the earth?

Épisode 2 - Why Are Leaves Green? Part 1

15 mars 2013

Have you ever wondered why leaves are green and not red, blue, or even black? We did too!

Épisode 3 - Why Are Leaves Green? Part 2

23 mars 2013

Still wondering why leaves are green and not purple or even black? CHLOROPHYLL! It's how leaves work.

Épisode 4 - How Tall Can Mountains Be?

30 mars 2013

What is the maximum height for a mountain on Earth!? And why?

Épisode 5 - Why Does Earth Have Deserts?

12 avril 2013

Why Does Earth Have Deserts? For the same reason it has Rainforests: Hadley Cells!!!

Épisode 6 - Bedbugs. Seriously!?

19 avril 2013

Bedbugs! Note: Both male and female Cimex lectularius feed on humans

Épisode 7 - Earth at Day

22 avril 2013

MinuteEarth provides an energetic and entertaining view of trends in earth's environment -- in just a few minutes!



Épisode 8 - The Story of Frozen Food

27 avril 2013

Épisode 9 - What is Freezer Burn?

3 mai 2013

Henry explains what freezer burn is.

Épisode 10 - 400 Parts in a Million: The World's Biggest Experiment

14 mai 2013

Épisode 11 - Our Atmosphere is Escaping!

17 mai 2013

Épisode 12 - Left vs Right

1 juin 2013

Why do we drive on the left/right!?

Épisode 13 - Beer & Biodiversity

9 juin 2013

Épisode 14 - Do Fetuses Poop?

28 juin 2013

Épisode 15 - The Great North American Locust Plague

9 juillet 2013

Épisode 16 - The Hottest Place on Earth

22 juillet 2013

Épisode 17 - Garbage Doesn't Lie

17 août 2013

Épisode 18 - Trash vs. Garbage

23 août 2013

Épisode 19 - Denizens of the Deep

31 août 2013

Épisode 20 - How to Survive a Lightning Strike

9 septembre 2013

Épisode 21 - The Biggest Organism on Earth

17 septembre 2013

Épisode 22 - The One That Got Away (Size Matters)

29 septembre 2013

Épisode 23 - Which Came First - The Rain or the Rainforest?

19 octobre 2013

Épisode 24 - What is Skin For?

27 octobre 2013

Épisode 25 - How Our Honey Is Made

9 novembre 2013

Épisode 26 - Why is All Sand the Same?

26 novembre 2013

Épisode 27 - How To Make A Seashell - Just Add Water!

2 décembre 2013

Épisode 28 - What Happened To This Car?

9 décembre 2013

Épisode 29 - Birds that Hibernate in Lakes?!

16 décembre 2013

Épisode 1 - How your dog can protect you before you're born

7 janvier 2014

Épisode 2 - How do Trees Survive Winter?

27 janvier 2014

Épisode 3 - Where Did Earth's Water Come From?

7 février 2014

Épisode 4 - Are any Animals Truly Monogamous?

14 février 2014

Épisode 5 - Poop Transplants!

30 mars 2014

Épisode 6 - Love Letter to Food

18 avril 2014

Épisode 7 - How To Date A Planet

25 avril 2014

Épisode 8 - Ocean Confetti!

10 mai 2014

Épisode 9 - Invasion of the Yellow Crazy Ants!

2 juin 2014

Épisode 10 - The Secret Social Life of Plants

17 juin 2014

Épisode 11 - Why is it Hot Underground?

16 juillet 2014

Épisode 12 - Why do Bats Transmit so many Diseases like Ebola?

4 août 2014

Épisode 13 - How to Build a Better City

19 août 2014

Épisode 14 - Why Do We Have More Boys Than Girls?

4 septembre 2014

Épisode 15 - How to Keep Elephants and Wolves Out of Your Yard

19 septembre 2014

Épisode 16 - Five Crazy Bridges for Animals

8 octobre 2014

Épisode 17 - Are These Butterflies The Same?

22 octobre 2014

Épisode 18 - Why Do Rivers Curve?

19 novembre 2014

Épisode 19 - Why Do We Eat Spoiled Food?

18 décembre 2014

Épisode 1 - Plate Tectonics Explained

13 janvier 2015

How do plate tectonics REALLY work?

Épisode 2 - Why Poor Places Are More Diverse

22 janvier 2015

Épisode 3 - This Is Your Brain On Extreme Weather

17 février 2015

Épisode 4 - Tidal Locking | Why Do We Only See One Side of the Moon?

28 février 2015

Épisode 5 - Why do Some Species Thrive in Cities?

27 mars 2015

Urban development can be tough on wildlife. But some plants and animals are adapting to our cities in surprising ways.

Épisode 6 - Why Don't Scavengers Get Sick?

31 mars 2015

Épisode 7 - Why Are There Clouds

21 avril 2015

Épisode 8 - Should We Let Pandas Go Extinct?

30 avril 2015

Épisode 9 - Rain's Dirty Little Secret

8 mai 2015

Épisode 10 - How Do Greenhouse Gases Actually Work?

26 mai 2015

Épisode 11 - Are We Really 99% Chimp?

11 juin 2015

Épisode 12 - Is Climate Change Just A Lot Of Hot Air?

18 juin 2015

Épisode 13 - Do We Have to Get Old and Die?

29 juin 2015

Épisode 14 - Why Are There Dangerous Ingredients In Vaccines?

31 juillet 2015

Épisode 15 - We're Oversalting Our Food, And It's Not What You Think

31 août 2015

Épisode 16 - How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse

26 septembre 2015

Today's wildfires burn, on average, twice the amount of land they did in 1970. The reason? We've been working too hard to put them out.

Épisode 17 - How Risky Are Vaccines?

19 octobre 2015

Épisode 18 - The Real Reason Leaves Change Color In the Fall

24 octobre 2015

Épisode 19 - How To Avoid The Next Atlantis

3 novembre 2015

Épisode 20 - Epigenetics - Why Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought

18 novembre 2015

Épisode 21 - Climate Change - The View From MinuteEarth - #OursToLose

23 novembre 2015

Épisode 22 - Why Do Rivers Have Deltas?

16 décembre 2015

Épisode 23 - This Is Not A Pine Tree

18 décembre 2015

Épisode 1 - How Many Mass Extinctions Have There Been?

20 janvier 2016

Épisode 2 - Which Fish Did We Evolve From?

10 février 2016

Épisode 3 - Males vs. Females - Sexual Conflict

17 février 2016

Épisode 4 - How Mushrooms Make It Rain

24 février 2016

Épisode 5 - How Much Does Meat Actually Cost?

3 mars 2016

Épisode 6 - Who Are Flowers Trying To Seduce?

10 mars 2016

Épisode 7 - The Deadliest Ice Age Ever

28 mars 2016

Épisode 8 - Should We Contact Uncontacted Peoples?

8 avril 2016

Épisode 9 - The Mystery Of Asparagus Pee

14 avril 2016

Épisode 10 - This Video Has Consumed 48.7 Household-Days of Electricity!

20 avril 2016

Épisode 11 - Why We Sucked At Counting Fish (Until Now)

6 mai 2016

Épisode 12 - Orchids - The Masters Of Lying, Cheating & Stealing

16 mai 2016

Épisode 13 - Would You Drink Water Made From Sewage?

13 juin 2016

Épisode 14 - Which Bear Is Best?

21 juin 2016

Why do some species flourish and others falter? Sometimes it just comes down to luck.

Épisode 15 - Null Island: The Busiest Place That Doesn't Exist

7 juillet 2016

Épisode 16 - Can Math Explain How Animals Get Their Patterns?

11 août 2016

How Alan Turing's Reaction-Diffusion Model Simulates Patterns in Nature

Épisode 17 - How To (Literally) Save Earth

16 août 2016

Farming erodes soil 50 times faster than it forms. We can change that, but will we?

Épisode 18 - Why Are Hybrid Animals Sterile?

23 août 2016

Hybrid animals are infertile because of the way their sex cells form. But sometimes, life finds a way.

Épisode 19 - The Faint Young Sun Paradox!

7 septembre 2016

Épisode 20 - Which Parts Of The Brain Do What?

20 septembre 2016

Our functional map of the brain has changed. Here's why.

Épisode 21 - How Different Are Different Types of Dogs?

10 octobre 2016

Épisode 22 - Why Biodiversity Is Good For The Economy

13 octobre 2016

Research suggests that more diverse ecosystems are better for the bottom line.

Épisode 23 - Why Do Animals Eat Their Babies?

20 octobre 2016

Sometimes, it makes sense for critters across the animal kingdom to chow down on their own young.

Épisode 24 - Why Are There So Many Tigers In Texas?

2 novembre 2016

Why there will likely soon be more tigers in backyards in Texas than in the wilds of Asia.

Épisode 25 - Why Only Some Monkeys Have Awesome Tails

16 novembre 2016

Almost all mammals with prehensile tails live in the neotropics because the forest is different there.

Épisode 26 - How Humans Made Malaria So Deadly

29 novembre 2016

Épisode 27 - How This Sea Shell Knows the Weather in Greenland

7 décembre 2016

Foraminifera – tiny, single-celled marine life forms – build gorgeous houses that record how much ice there is on the planet.

Épisode 28 - Why Don't Americans Eat Reindeer?

19 décembre 2016

Reindeer meat could’ve entered North American cuisine and culture, but our turn of the century efforts to develop a reindeer industry were stymied by nature, the beef lobby, and the Great Depression.

Épisode 1 - Should We Grow Human Organs In Pigs?

25 janvier 2017

An amazing new technology will let scientists grow new kidneys for patients using their own stem cells inside of pigs.

Épisode 2 - Why Is Poop Brown And Pee Yellow?

2 février 2017

The pigments in our food all get destroyed on their way through our digestive system...so where do the colors of our poop and pee come from?

Épisode 3 - How Physics Saved Two Million Premature Babies

14 février 2017

Doctors beat back a disease that was killing tens of thousands of babies a year with a machine based on a simple principle of physics.

Épisode 4 - Why Did T Rex Have Such Tiny Arms?

22 février 2017

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.

Épisode 5 - Why Are Snakes So Creepy?

2 mars 2017

Snakes occupy a special place in the human brain because they’re so weird.

Épisode 6 - Why Perfume Makers Love Constipated Whales

7 mars 2017

How whale poop becomes perfume. Thanks to Crunchyroll for sponsoring this video!

Épisode 7 - Why Is A Group Of Crows Called A “Murder”?

15 mars 2017

Collective nouns are a great way to have fun with language and nature.

Épisode 8 - What Makes A Dinosaur?

28 mars 2017

Due to a revolution in our understanding of the tree of life, birds are dinosaurs, while dimetrodons are not.

Épisode 9 - How Cats Became our Feline Overlords

12 avril 2017

Check out how cats became our favorite little murder machines.

Épisode 10 - Why Some Molecules Have Evil Twins

19 avril 2017

A tiny change in a molecule’s geometry completely changes its effects on the human body.

Épisode 11 - Why Don’t Sheep Shrink In The Rain?

26 avril 2017

Getting wet isn’t REALLY what makes wool shrink; it merely exacerbates the friction between the wool fibers, which is stronger in one direction than another, so when agitated in the washer or dryer, they migrate in relation to each other in a process called “felting.”

Épisode 12 - Why Don't Sled Dogs Ever Get Tired?

3 mai 2017

Sled dogs are the best endurance athletes in the world thanks to a weird quirk in their metabolism.

Épisode 13 - Why Most Rain Never Reaches The Ground

10 mai 2017

Less than half of the rain that falls from a cloud makes it all the way to the ground – because a lot evaporates while falling or after landing in treetops.

Épisode 14 - Why Apple Pie Isn't American

24 mai 2017

Our diets are more global than we realize, because our common food crops and animals were domesticated far away in diverse locations.

Épisode 15 - This Is Not A Bee

31 mai 2017

It can be hard to distinguish bees from all the other insects out there that look like bees.

Épisode 16 - Why Does Wine Make Your Mouth Feel Dry?

15 juin 2017

Épisode 17 - What Nuclear Bombs Taught Us About Whales

21 juin 2017

A monitoring system developed to listen for secret nuclear tests mostly hears other events happening all around Earth.

Épisode 18 - Why So Many Meteorites Come From The Same Place

6 juillet 2017

Because of space physics, one faraway asteroid is likely the progenitor of almost a third of all the meteorites on Earth.

Épisode 19 - Invasion Of The Earthworms!

12 juillet 2017

Worms cause major changes to ecosystems, but those changes aren’t always new.

Épisode 20 - Why It Sucks to Be a Male Hyena

19 juillet 2017

Thanks to spotted hyenas’ unusual social structure, males experience a tough life of solitude, harassment, and deprivation.

Épisode 21 - TRANSPARENT Solar Panels?!

27 juillet 2017

Infinitesimally small quantum dots can turn a window into a see-through solar panel!

Épisode 22 - UPSIDE-DOWN Rivers On Mars?!

2 août 2017

The "Mountain or Valley?" illusion makes our brains turn valleys inside out. But inside-out valleys are a real thing, both on Earth and on Mars.

Épisode 23 - Our Definition For “Moon” Is Broken

15 août 2017

It’s becoming harder and harder to categorize moons as moons.

Épisode 24 - Why Is Syrup Sticky?

24 août 2017

What exactly makes sugary syrups so sticky, when neither water nor sugar is very sticky on its own?

Épisode 25 - Why Do India And China Have So Many People?

31 août 2017

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.

Épisode 26 - Why Is Your Grandma So Short?

22 septembre 2017

Nutrition during the first few years of life has a huge impact on adult height, and since nutrition has been getting better over time, humanity - including your family - is getting taller.

Épisode 27 - Why Farming Is Broken (And Always Has Been)

27 septembre 2017

To feed everyone in the future, we may need to disrupt 10,000 years of farming practices and turn agriculture into a closed system.

Épisode 28 - Why Do Female Hyenas Have Pseudo-Penises?!

4 octobre 2017

Female hyenas don't have penises, but it sure looks like they do - and we still aren't quite sure why.

Épisode 29 - Where Do Our Drugs Come From?

13 octobre 2017

The incredible chemical weapon-making abilities of fungi, bacteria, and plants have created a diverse array of compounds that are useful to humans.

Épisode 30 - Why Bird Penises Are So Weird

25 octobre 2017

Male birds have the largest genital diversity of any class of animals because their sex chromosomes make it easy to pass male-helping mutations down the line.

Épisode 31 - What Are Brain Waves?

7 novembre 2017

Even the parts of our brains that don't control physical movement show a lot of rhythm, and that might be integral to how our brains work.

Épisode 32 - Why Do Some Animals Get Gigantic?

24 novembre 2017

Occasionally, internal or external factors change, allowing certain animals to become giant versions of themselves.

Épisode 33 - Why Pets Have Surprisingly Small Brains

6 décembre 2017

When we domesticate an animal species, their brains shrink and they freak out less.

Épisode 34 - Are 'Acts of God' Disappearing?

13 décembre 2017

Considering humans' increased impact on the environment, we may want to reconsider whether there is still a place in our legal system for the Act of God defense.

Épisode 35 - Why Do Birds Migrate Like This?

20 décembre 2017

Migrating birds care more about the ease of their trip than the distance they travel, and that leads to some truly roundabout routes.

Épisode 1 - A Disease's Guide to World Domination

9 janvier 2018

There's something surprising that helps determine how damaging a disease is: distance.

Épisode 2 - Why Our Favorite Crops Live Fast and Die Young

24 janvier 2018

We mostly grow annual plants because they reliably produce energy-rich seeds, which we like to eat.

Épisode 3 - Why Electroshock Therapy Is Back

7 février 2018

Shocking the brain has come and gone as a medical treatment, but it’s currently resurging, as it often provides the best form of relief for severe depression and advanced Parkinson’s disease.

Épisode 4 - We Asked Bill Gates: Do You Need To Be Rich To Be Healthy?

14 février 2018

No matter how wealthy a country is, there's a lot it can do to improve the health of its citizens.

Épisode 5 - Is It Safe To Get Your DNA Tested?

20 février 2018

Once it’s out of your body, your genetic information is valuable to a variety of people, but you can keep it safe(ish) with a few simple steps.

Épisode 6 - How Much Food Is There On Earth?

22 mars 2018

Food already in cupboards, supermarkets, & warehouses could feed humanity for 4 months, but potential food - berries, termites & krill - could extend that by another year.

Épisode 7 - Are Plastics Too Strong?

6 avril 2018

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.

Épisode 8 - Milk Is Just Filtered Blood

12 avril 2018

Female mammals make milk, a cocktail of filtered blood, to provide their babies with vital nutrients.

Épisode 9 - Why You Shouldn't Give Ginger To Monkeys (and other animal sayings)

25 avril 2018

Humans from different cultures anthropomorphize different animals to represent the same human traits.

Épisode 10 - When Trees Go Nuts

10 mai 2018

Every once in a while, all the oaks or spruces or other plants in a region suddenly produce a tremendous bounty of seeds – up to 100 times more than usual. But why do they do it, and how do they all manage to sync up?

Épisode 11 - How Long Can We Live?

29 mai 2018

The human lifespan might be limited, in part, because natural selection just stops working late in life.

Épisode 12 - Rise Of The Mesopredator

14 juin 2018

Thanks to humans, old school apex predators are struggling to hold onto their perch at the top of the food chain. And now a new class of adaptable mesopredators are remaking the ecosystems they take over.

Épisode 13 - The Similarity Trap

27 juin 2018

As we try to figure out the evolutionary trees for languages and species, we sometimes get led astray by similar but unrelated words and traits.

Épisode 14 - Why Earth Has Two Levels

12 juillet 2018

Earth’s outer shell is made of two materials whose different densities and thicknesses give rise to two distinct “levels” on the planet’s surface.

Épisode 15 - Why Are There Penguins At The Equator?

2 août 2018

When nutrients from the ocean depths reach the sunlit surface (like in the Galapagos), life is more productive.

Épisode 16 - Why Do Some Animals Eat Poop?

29 août 2018

Animals eat their own poop in order to gain extra access to nutrients or to microbes that help digest those nutrients.

Épisode 17 - Why Malaria Isn’t Just a Tropical Disease

12 septembre 2018

Malaria is a global disease that we've beaten back around the world, including in some tropical places, but we’ve had the hardest time in Africa.

Épisode 18 - The Secret Weapon That Could Help Save Bees

4 octobre 2018

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.

Épisode 19 - The Mystery of The Exploding Appendix

14 novembre 2018

Rates of appendicitis vary around the world, likely due to the forces of modernization.

Épisode 20 - These Names Can Kill Animals

5 décembre 2018

Just like the names of products and companies, animals' names can affect how we feel about them...and changing the name of a species might actually help us save it.

Épisode 21 - The Bird Poop That Changed The World

14 décembre 2018

Bird poop was the gateway fertilizer that turned humanity onto the imported-chemical-based farming system of modern agriculture.

Épisode 1 - Why Are Your Fingerprints Unique?

15 janvier 2019

Because of the chaotic way fingerprints develop and the multiplying effect of compound probability, it's basically impossible for any two fingers to have matching prints.

Épisode 2 - Why Earthquakes Are So Hard To Predict

13 février 2019

Scientists are trying to figure out if they can predict big earthquakes by simulating small quakes in labs and studying big quakes under the ocean.

Épisode 3 - The Problem With Concrete

1 mars 2019

Concrete is responsible for 8% of humanity’s carbon emissions because making its key ingredient - cement - chemically releases CO2, and because we burn fossil fuels to make it happen.

Épisode 4 - You Are A Fish

21 mars 2019

With our current understanding of evolutionary history and our strategy of cladistic naming, if we wanted to have both goldfish and sharks under a single group called "fish", then mammals must also be called fish.

Épisode 5 - Why Can't We Get Power From Waves?

2 avril 2019

Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things.

Épisode 6 - Why Is Lyme Disease Getting Worse?

22 avril 2019

Lyme disease is spreading like wildfire around the world: here's why.

Épisode 7 - The Secrets of Extreme Breath Holding

1 mai 2019

Humans can hold our breath longer than we think by taking advantage of our body’s innate survival instincts - and then ignoring them.

Épisode 8 - This Country Has Something Everyone Else Wants

13 juin 2019

Morocco has 3/4 of the world’s known reserves of rock phosphate, our main source of phosphorus, so Morocco may be key to our long-term ability to grow food.

Épisode 9 - How to Turn Cancer Against Itself

20 juin 2019

Cancer has proven hard to beat, but a promising new type of treatment can use the disease's own powers against it.

Épisode 10 - Why We Should Invest In Rat Massage

5 juillet 2019

Basic research can seem wasteful, but it's actually a great economic investment.

Épisode 11 - The Cruel Irony Of Air Conditioning

16 juillet 2019

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.

Épisode 12 - The Bacteria That Made Life Possible Are Now Killing Us

23 juillet 2019

Aquatic cyanobacteria first oxygenated earth’s air, making human life possible; now, due to our actions, cyanobacteria are madly blooming once more, poisoning our coasts in the process.

Épisode 13 - How To See Microbes From Space

14 août 2019

Observing the effects of microbes using satellites can give us all sorts of useful information about life on Earth ... and other planets too.

Épisode 14 - The Optimal Way To Browse The Internet

27 août 2019

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.

Épisode 15 - The Secret Global Sewer System

4 septembre 2019

Ditches and drain pipes help crops survive but can negatively impact the broader landscape.

Épisode 16 - Why Exercise Is Hard

11 septembre 2019

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.

Épisode 17 - Why Our Bodies Are Hurting Us

10 octobre 2019

The same enzyme that used to save us is now killing us because the body reactions it catalyzes now cause more harm than good.

Épisode 18 - Why Are Adults Bad At New Languages?

22 octobre 2019

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.

Épisode 19 - How Much Air Can A Tree Hold?

25 octobre 2019

Trees can take an astounding amount of carbon out of the air, which is good, because we need to do that times a trillion.

Épisode 20 - The Best Dragon (According to Science)

4 novembre 2019

We ranked dragons based on how biologically and evolutionarily plausible they are.

Épisode 21 - Smartphones: A New Model for Energy Efficiency?

25 novembre 2019

The way smartphones made many devices nonessential is a model for a new way to think about improving energy efficiency.

Épisode 22 - Can AI Help Us Identify Animals?

3 décembre 2019

New technology has revolutionized how we study wild animals, but it has also bogged down scientists with data...luckily, there's an *intelligent* solution.

Épisode 23 - The Great Acceleration

6 décembre 2019

We’re in the middle of a rapid, unprecedented, and world-changing increase in the intensity and scale of human activity on this planet.

Épisode 24 - Nobody Really Knows What A Concussion Is

13 décembre 2019

Experts can't agree on the definition of the term "concussion," which makes it difficult to diagnose, treat, and research this important brain injury.

Épisode 25 - Why It’s HARD To Bring A New Apple To Market

19 décembre 2019

Fruit trees are unpredictable and grow slowly, and consumer tastes are fickle, so successful new varieties of fruit are rare.

Épisode 26 - You Have More Bones Than You Think

30 décembre 2019

Because the ossification process can differ so much from human to human, we have a wide range of potential bone numbers.

Épisode 1 - How To Turn Poop Into Power

9 janvier 2020

We could generate a lot of usable energy from human and animal poop through greater adoption of a process for using microbes to break down poop into methane gas.

Épisode 2 - The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World

31 janvier 2020

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.

Épisode 3 - How This River Made Chimps Violent

12 février 2020

When a group of apes got split apart, slight differences in their new environments led to big differences in future generations.

Épisode 4 - Where Does One Ocean End And Another Begin?

25 février 2020

Earth's ocean water is continuous. How can we divide it into sections that are more useful?

Épisode 5 - Why Don't More Animals Eat Wood?

9 mars 2020

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.

Épisode 6 - How To Name A Disease (Like COVID-19)

20 mars 2020

We’ve changed - and standardized - the way diseases get named because the old way was often stigmatizing and confusing.

Épisode 7 - How to Work From Home as a Team

27 mars 2020

We've worked as a team - remotely - for seven years, and we're sharing some of our favorite tips for making it work.

Épisode 8 - The Extinction Happening Inside You

23 avril 2020

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.

Épisode 9 - This Atom Can Predict The Future

30 avril 2020

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.

Épisode 10 - Why Do We STILL Use Lead Pipes?!

7 mai 2020

We've known for millennia that lead pipes could make us sick, so why are we still drinking from them?

Épisode 11 - Why Wolves Don't Chirp

14 mai 2020

Sounds that animals make can be really different, and it turns out that there's a reason why some species communicate with certain sounds.

Épisode 12 - Why You Can't Build A Clone Army... (Yet)

21 mai 2020

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.

Épisode 13 - Is There A Better Way To Power Airplanes?

28 mai 2020

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.

Épisode 14 - The Best Worst Energy Source

9 juin 2020

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.

Épisode 15 - YouTube Is Misleading You. Help Us Make It Better.

18 juin 2020

As we see a rise in misinformation on YouTube, educational channels like MinuteEarth need your support today more than ever.

Épisode 16 - *If We Aren't Too Late

24 juin 2020

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.

Épisode 17 - Will Gas Stations Survive?

1 juillet 2020

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.

Épisode 18 - Why People Hate Hyenas

23 juillet 2020

Throughout history and around the world, most people dislike hyenas. But why?

Épisode 19 - How To Go Extinct

31 juillet 2020

Our new evolution simulator reveals that extinction often happens when conditions change quickly.

Épisode 20 - Why Sewers Around the World Keep Overflowing

14 août 2020

The old combined sewer systems of many major cities are no match for modern storms and impermeable surfaces.

Épisode 21 - The World's Most Expensive Shrimp ($10k)

25 août 2020

Some aquarium hobbyists will pay $10,000 or more for a single shrimp because of the rarity of their colors or patterns.

Épisode 22 - Why You’re More Likely To Die In Winter

10 septembre 2020

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.

Épisode 23 - How To Hear Halfway Around The World

17 septembre 2020

Sounds in the ocean can travel more than 10,000 miles - that's halfway around the world! Here's how.

Épisode 24 - 15 YouTubers Play The Telephone Game

24 septembre 2020

Here’s what happened when more than a dozen of our favorite channels got together to blindly make a video with one another.

Épisode 25 - Why Hardwoods Are The Softest Woods

9 octobre 2020

Not all hardwood trees have hard wood and softwoods soft wood, because these terms denote their taxonomic ancestry, not the wood's actual hardness.

Épisode 26 - Can Pregnancy Tests Help Beat The Pandemic?

16 octobre 2020

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.

Épisode 27 - Why Doesn't All Thunder Sound The Same?

20 octobre 2020

We've all experienced thunder, but what ARE all those claps, booms, and rumbles?

Épisode 28 - The Science of Roadkill

6 novembre 2020

Surprisingly, flattened fauna can teach us a lot about wildlife biology.

Épisode 29 - Dangerous Marshmallows?!

19 novembre 2020

Burning a marshmallow can release more energy than detonating an equal mass of TNT...so why isn't a marshmallow as dangerous?

Épisode 30 - The Best Pokémon (According to Science)

25 novembre 2020

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.

Épisode 31 - The Plant That’s Full Of Metal

21 décembre 2020

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.

Épisode 32 - Does It Pay To Cheat?

23 décembre 2020

For some birds, trying to cheat your neighbors into raising your babies is just as much work - and is no more successful - than doing it yourself.

Épisode 33 - MinuteEarth Explains: How Did Whales Get So Big? | Book Trailer

16 juillet 2021

WE MADE A BOOK! It’s packed with the clever explanations, adorable illustrations, and quirky humor you love from MinuteEarth – all in hard-cover form! Explore science and fun facts about animals, plants, microbes and more from all over Earth (and beyond).

Épisode 34 - Hyena Families #Shorts

10 août 2021

Hyenas are more catty than doggy, but ultimately they’re just hyena-y!

Épisode 35 - Grolar Bears #Shorts

13 août 2021

Know your hybrids

Épisode 36 - Opossum vs Possum #shorts

1 septembre 2021

Opossums and possums are awesome. Here’s how to tell the difference.

Épisode 37 - We're making hurricanes stronger #shorts

7 novembre 2021

We're making hurricanes stronger. Here's how.

Épisode 38 - The Rain Shadow Effect #shorts

29 septembre 2021

Here’s how mountains control the weather.

Épisode 1 - Why Most New Species Are Discovered By Amateurs

29 janvier 2021

Most new species are discovered by amateurs because nowadays non-professionals are actually better suited to the requirements of new species “discovery.”

Épisode 2 - How Wildfires Generate "Never-Ending" Storms

1 février 2021

Under the right conditions, wildfires can form clouds and generate firestorms, which last far longer than normal thunderstorms.

Épisode 3 - Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics

12 février 2021

Certain cognitive biases cause humans to make unsafe decisions in a pandemic, making a terrible disease even worse.

Épisode 4 - Dogs vs Cats: The Diversity Paradox

18 février 2021

Different dogs look incredibly different - but that doesn't mean they are necessarily more diverse.

Épisode 5 - The BEST Depiction of Coronavirus Is A Work of Art (literally)

4 mars 2021

Épisode 6 - The Problem With Life Expectancy

11 mars 2021

In order to truly understand differences among animal lifespans, we need to stop thinking about a specific number and start thinking about a distribution.

Épisode 7 - Why "Nothing" Matters in Science

19 mars 2021

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.

Épisode 8 - Which Will Kill You First?

1 avril 2021

The body can get a whole lot colder - but not a whole lot hotter - before we die. Why is that?

Épisode 9 - Proteins: Explained

16 avril 2021

You might already know that proteins are a fundamental part of your diet, but they're much more than that.

Épisode 10 - The Ecology of Superheroes

22 avril 2021

Superheroes - imaginary and real - aren't all that super on their own...here's why.

Épisode 11 - How Do Some Waves Get SO Big?

30 avril 2021

All over the world, giant wave breaks appear because of underwater geology that supercharges their wave energy.

Épisode 12 - Why We Faint (When Other Animals Don't)

4 mai 2021

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.

Épisode 13 - The Mystery Of The Missing Penis

13 mai 2021

Because there are so many different types of penises among our evolutionary relatives, we didn’t know until a recent discovery whether they all had the same origin.

Épisode 14 - An Unexpected Consequence of COVID

26 mai 2021

The global pandemic led to a drop in outdoor air pollution, but it also led to an increase in indoor air pollution - and our exposure to it.

Épisode 15 - Why It's Good To Have A Weak Hand

3 juin 2021

We might have a strong hand because having a weak hand is actually useful.

Épisode 16 - We don't know what a tree is (and this video won't tell you)

9 juin 2021

It turns out that defining what is and isn't a “tree” is way harder than it seems.

Épisode 17 - How Long Did People Use To Live?

24 juin 2021

By analyzing survivorship curves over the centuries, we can learn what’s changed about how - and when - humans die.

Épisode 18 - How Fevers REALLY Work

2 juillet 2021

Fevers are one of our best weapons against infections, but they don't work like you might think.

Épisode 19 - Why These Bears “Waste” Food

9 juillet 2021

Optimal foraging theory means that turning down food is sometimes more efficient than eating it - but even then, what’s “wasted” doesn’t necessarily go to waste.

Épisode 20 - How To Survive Poison

29 juillet 2021

It’s not just how much you take in; it’s how fast your body can purge it.

Épisode 21 - How A Whale And A Bear Beat The System

5 août 2021

While the rest of the world’s megafauna are still foundering in the anthropocene era, these two big animals have used little animal strategies to bounce back. Way back.

Épisode 22 - Why Sharks Are Covered In Teeth

20 août 2021

Sharks wouldn’t be known for their fierce teeth today if it weren’t for their ancient scales.

Épisode 23 - Why Do Hobbits Need SEVEN Meals?

26 août 2021

Because smaller animals have to eat more relative to their bodyweight, Tolkein’s hobbits need to eat a lot - not for comfort, but for survival.

Épisode 24 - The Place Where Time Flows Backwards

9 septembre 2021

People all around the world tend to represent time via space, but there’s no consensus on which way time goes.

Épisode 25 - How To Solve Every Global Crisis

16 septembre 2021

Lots of global problems seem intractable, but there’s a formula for success that we can follow.

Épisode 26 - The Hurricane Category Scale Is Broken

24 septembre 2021

The current hurricane category scale doesn’t accurately convey the danger of a storm, because it doesn’t account for a hurricane's most destructive factors.

Épisode 27 - Hyena Butter: Everything You Did And Didn't Want To Know

12 octobre 2021

Hyenas communicate via an information-dense physical medium (hyena butter) - and now MinuteEarth does too (book).

Épisode 28 - Why Fruit Is Confusing

25 octobre 2021

Trying to ripen some fruits on your kitchen counter is totally fruitless - here's why.

Épisode 29 - How Birds Almost Escalated The Cold War

5 novembre 2021

A technology to ignore birds on radar ended up being useful to study and conserve them.

Épisode 30 - The Plankton Paradox

11 novembre 2021

The competitive exclusion principle predicts that there would just be a few species of plankton, but instead there are thousands.

Épisode 31 - Why The Shortest Day Of The Year Isn't The Coldest

19 novembre 2021

The way we experience seasons don't necessarily line up with how they're technically defined - here's why.

Épisode 32 - The Most Common Allergy In The World

24 novembre 2021

The urushiol molecules in poison ivy have the ability to trigger a harmful immune response in most people because the immune system mistakenly labels them as a threat.

Épisode 33 - Why The Ocean Needs Salt

3 décembre 2021

Our oceans don’t technically contain salt, but the ions salt is made of play a critical role in planet-wide processes that make the Earth habitable.

Épisode 34 - Why The Weather Is Worse At The Mall

10 décembre 2021

Extreme weather sometimes happens in very specific areas thanks to extreme surface temperature differences.

Épisode 35 - Which Is Worse?

20 décembre 2021

A broken bone might seem worse than a sprain, but you'll get over it much more quickly.

Épisode 36 - The Cheapest Way To Save A Life

22 décembre 2021

The most cost-effective way to save a human life right now is to help give Vitamin A drops to certain groups of people, thanks to the health effects of the drops and the ease of their distribution.

Épisode 37 - Why Bitcoin Is Like Reindeer Mating

24 décembre 2021

Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies, like NFTs, work a lot like reindeer mating.

Épisode 38 - How to ACTUALLY Make a Difference #shorts

24 mars 2022

Épisode 39 - What, exactly, is in the air you breathe? #shorts

21 avril 2022

Épisode 40 - The greenhouse effect might be misnamed #shorts

21 avril 2022

Épisode 41 - MinuteEarth Explains: Birds

15 août 2022

Épisode 1 - Is Soil Alive?

27 janvier 2022

Soil doesn't seem like it's "alive", yet it functions like a living thing in lots of key ways.

Épisode 2 - Why Do Humans Vomit So Much?

1 février 2022

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.

Épisode 3 - The Freshwater Paradox

16 février 2022

Even though less than 1% of Earth's water is freshwater, it's the home for 50% of fish species. This is the Freshwater Paradox.

Épisode 4 - Screens are NOT the reason kids need glasses

1 mars 2022

Way more kids have fuzzy vision these days because we spend less time in outdoor light, which makes our eyeballs longer.

Épisode 5 - An Egg Is Just One Cell

11 mars 2022

One of Earth's biggest cells is one you're probably really familiar with.

Épisode 6 - Why Water Dissolves (Almost) Everything

21 mars 2022

Water can dissolve more substances than anything else on earth...so why doesn't it dissolve everything away?

Épisode 7 - Our BIG Secret…

13 avril 2022

Épisode 8 - Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From?

21 avril 2022

The most likely cause of the next pandemic will be the “spillover” of a disease from one of a select group of animals with particular immune system traits and interactions with humans.

Épisode 9 - Why Does Nature Have Redundant Copies?

29 avril 2022

Who needs redundancy? Well, everyone, it turns out.

Épisode 10 - The Super Secrets of Sewage

9 mai 2022

In 2020, many cities started monitoring wastewater for viruses, and there are a lot of non-virus reasons to keep doing it.

Épisode 11 - Truth Decay

11 mai 2022

Trust is eroding, in part, due to the over-abundance of opinion-based content; we must all develop better tools and habits for consuming information to regain a shared understanding of what is true.

Épisode 12 - Why Is There So Much Land In The North?

26 mai 2022

Most of Earth’s land is currently in the northern hemisphere because we happen to exist in a time where uneven heating in the mantle has pushed many continental plates northward.

Épisode 13 - The Actual Reason Men Die First

31 mai 2022

Because females often outlive males, behavior is often blamed - but there is a decent chance our sex chromosomes might be to blame instead.

Épisode 14 - Do Other Diseases Have "Long" Versions?

21 juin 2022

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.

Épisode 15 - Vampire Life is Hard

29 juin 2022

Blood-suckers may seem like they have it easy, but feeding on blood comes with a lot of challenges.

Épisode 16 - Our Lungs Have A Fatal Flaw

22 juillet 2022

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.

Épisode 17 - Why Continents Are High

29 juillet 2022

Lots of geological forces need to come together for continents to form, but they all require one ingredient: water.

Épisode 18 - How Do Abortion Pills Work?

3 août 2022

You may have heard of "abortion pills" - here's what these medications are and what they do (and don't do).

Épisode 19 - Volcano VS Glacier

19 août 2022

Volcanoes might seem like an unstoppable force of nature - but there is at least one OTHER force on Earth that seems to be able to keep them down.

Épisode 20 - Why Weather Forecasts Suck

25 août 2022

There are two types of rain, and one of them is almost impossible to forecast.

Épisode 21 - You'll prefer 120dB

15 septembre 2022

We often use decibels, a measure of sound pressure, to describe how loud something is - but loudness is caused by how we perceive sounds, and the two often don't line up.

Épisode 22 - We Have No Idea Why

29 septembre 2022

Most animals on earth are bioluminescent, but almost all of them live in the ocean - and scientists aren’t sure why.

Épisode 23 - The Plant You Don’t Have To Water

6 octobre 2022

Some plants can drink water from the air - and that has some weird effects on the forests where they live.

Épisode 24 - The Couch Candy Protocol

17 octobre 2022

Épisode 25 - Mushroom Wars

26 octobre 2022

Épisode 26 - There’s No Such Thing As “Warm-” Or “Cold-” Blooded

1 novembre 2022

The concept of warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals is outdated because there are actually tons of different animal thermoregulation strategies.

Épisode 27 - How We Learned That Water Isn't An Element

14 novembre 2022

For thousands of years, water was thought to be an element. That is, until some of the greatest chemists in the world managed to crack it open.

Épisode 28 - What if We Replaced Nuclear With Potatoes

17 novembre 2022

Energy use can be confusing – I mean, how do you compare gasoline in your car to electricity piped to your house? That's why we made these things spud-tacularly simple.

Épisode 29 - Which Is Worse: Underpopulation Or Overpopulation?

6 décembre 2022

The human population of the world will soon peak – and then decrease – thanks to a combination of two quickly changing economic and educational trends.

Épisode 30 - Trees Won’t Save Us

9 décembre 2022

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.

Épisode 31 - Why It's Impossible To Win a Nuclear War

15 décembre 2022

Nuclear war is a terrifying existential threat, but we shouldn't only fear the blasts because the ensuing smoke is the real killer.

Épisode 32 - The 3 Reasons This Tree Has Lived 5000 Years

20 décembre 2022

Methuselah’s environment lacks nutrients, water, and oxygen. In other words, it’s the perfect place to grow very very old.

Épisode 33 - When Was The Worst Time In History To Die?

23 décembre 2022

By combining historical demography and epidemiology, we can (sort of) determine how people throughout history have died.

Épisode 34 - The Best Thing About Airplane Travel

29 décembre 2022

The shape of a farm can tell you a surprising amount about the land it's on and the people that use it.

Épisode 1 - Why Do Heart Attacks Cause *Arm* Pain?

26 janvier 2023

When the brain receives pain from an internal organ, it often projects the pain in the wrong place because of the way sensory nerve paths converge.

Épisode 2 - The Disease You Will Never Survive

10 février 2023

A simple mis-folding in a certain brain protein causes a disease for which we have no cure.

Épisode 3 - The Weird Sex Lives of Bluegills

21 février 2023

When it comes to the mating game, fish have some of the strangest ways of thwarting the competition.

Épisode 4 - You Can’t Actually Die Of Old Age

6 mars 2023

Despite centuries of death records to the contrary, “dying of old age” is not medically possible; instead, it’s just a convenient catch-all.

Épisode 5 - Is Pregnancy A Disease?

23 mars 2023

We actually have no idea what a “disease” is.

Épisode 6 - How Caffeine Accidentally Took Over The World

6 avril 2023

Plants don't make caffeine just for us, so what DO they make it for?

Épisode 7 - Entomologists Hate This Word

13 avril 2023

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?

Épisode 8 - Why We Haven’t Learned More In 101 Years Of Trying

27 avril 2023

Almost everything we know about the reproductive practices of European eels comes from a genius study conducted more than 100 years ago.

Épisode 9 - Ancient Humans Made Millions Of These - We Don’t Know Why

12 mai 2023

The Acheulean handaxe was the most common tool of early humans, but we still don’t know what the heck they used it for.

Épisode 10 - Why Most Fossils Are Incomplete

1 juin 2023

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 Field Museum… but because of the number of bones it had.

Épisode 11 - How Fish Get Away With Being Colorful

8 juin 2023

Coral reef fish get away with being colorful thanks to a weird quirk of underwater optics.

Épisode 12 - These Countries Are Cheating

14 juin 2023

By overcounting how much carbon their forests suck up, and undercounting how much carbon their industries release, countries undercount their total carbon emissions.

Épisode 13 - Should More Species Be Extinct?

22 juin 2023

The official number of extinct species is wrong… why?

Épisode 14 - Why Are They All In Antarctica?

13 juillet 2023

Meteorite hunters don’t search for meteorites in the places most frequently peppered by them – they go to Antarctica instead, because that’s where they are easiest to find.

Épisode 15 - Why Do People Hate Koalas?

21 juillet 2023

On the Internet, koalas get an unnecessary amount of hate, so let's debunk some of the most pervasive koala myths!

Épisode 16 - In The Future, Death Will Be Different

27 juillet 2023

In the future, humans will likely die of a very different suite of causes than we do now, thanks to advances in healthcare, an aging population, and changes in the environment.

Épisode 17 - The WEIRD Way Monkeys Got to America

10 août 2023

Many of the greatest biological dispersal events in history likely happened because animals inadvertently traveled across the oceans on floating debris.

Épisode 18 - Is Bigger Better?

22 août 2023

Elephants might be strong, but they are weak compared to ants because ants have certain advantages that allow them to outlift their larger competitors.

Épisode 19 - "Forever Chemicals" Are Surprisingly Confusing

1 septembre 2023

PFAS - also known as the “forever chemicals” we use in all sorts of household products - are able to cause all sorts of health problems without ever really reacting with anything.

Épisode 20 - Why Do Weeping Willows Weep?

15 septembre 2023

Most trees reach for the sun – but not the weeping willow. Why?

Épisode 21 - Yes, this is how we know the Earth is slowing down

22 septembre 2023

Without eclipses, our world would be a lot different because eclipses give us the ability to do science we otherwise wouldn’t be able to.

Épisode 22 - Apparently tree FINGERPRINTS are a thing

5 octobre 2023

Every species on Earth has a fingerprint - whether or not they have fingers at all.

Épisode 23 - Eclipses Used To Be Terrifying

13 octobre 2023

Because eclipses are powerful and frightening events, ancient cultures went to great lengths to understand eclipses, leading to remarkably accurate predictions and helping invent the science of astronomy.

Épisode 24 - Why Did It Take Us So Long?

30 octobre 2023

We've long known that animal pollination is an important way plants reproduce on land, but we're only JUST finding out animals also pollinate plants underwater.

Épisode 25 - Where The Weird Things Are

6 novembre 2023

Life in Antarctica's ocean has followed a completely different evolutionary path from other ocean life because of how cold and isolated the ocean is.

Épisode 26 - Why Hurricane Paths Are WEIRD

22 novembre 2023

Hurricane path prediction seems straightforward, until it is not – that’s because hurricanes can encounter atmospheric effects that turn their paths into erratic nonsense.

Épisode 27 - Why Flushing Isn't For Everyone

30 novembre 2023

Sewers are a great way to make pooping safe, but they’re not always the right solution because they require specific resources that many places just don’t have.

Épisode 28 - The time I was a human incubator

6 décembre 2023

Épisode 29 - Why Don't Electric Eels Shock Themselves?

20 décembre 2023

Electric eels can emit some of the largest shocks in the animal kingdom - but why don't they shock themselves?

Épisode 30 - The Never Ending Lightning Storm

22 décembre 2023

Épisode 31 - The Crabs Are Coming

29 décembre 2023

Épisode 1 - Inside The Sunny Center of a Hurricane

11 janvier 2024

Why is the middle of a hurricane sometimes so clear and calm?

Épisode 2 - How Much Gold is in Our Poop?

2 février 2024

Because of the way digestion works, human poop not only contains dangerous microbes, it also contains a wide variety of other things, many of which we could potentially put to use.

Épisode 3 - Weird Things Animals Do During Eclipses

8 février 2024

For centuries, humans have reported animals freaking out during solar eclipses, like birds falling from the sky and bees hiding in their hives, but the animals most affected by eclipses might be us.

Épisode 4 - Who’s Eating All The Spiders?

23 février 2024

The average human, in theory, eats 3 spiders a year. If you're not eating them and I'm not eating them, who is?

Épisode 5 - Why Do All YouTube Videos Look Alike?

1 mars 2024

Many crustaceans from all sorts of starting points evolve to end up looking similar, likely due to outside pressures. That’s sort of like what happens with YouTube videos.

Épisode 6 - What’s Eating The Titanic?

22 mars 2024

When a ship sinks, lots of factors, like the ship’s materials, the water quality, and the depth of the seafloor all play a role in determining how long the ship will last down there - as a result, the Titanic will be gone in fifty years, while Byzantine wrecks in the Black sea remain.

Épisode 7 - Why does the north get more total eclipses?

28 mars 2024

Solar eclipses can happen anywhere on earth, but if you want to see a total eclipse, you need to go to the far north, because the Earth’s shape and orbit determine the high latitudes and eclipse hotspot.