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Why We Sucked At Counting Fish (Until Now)

Science · May 6, 2016

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Why Only Some Monkeys Have Awesome Tails

Science · November 16, 2016

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Why Don’t Sled Dogs Ever Get Tired?

Science · May 3, 2017

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03:05

Why Farming is Broken

Science · September 27, 2017

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02:44

Are Plastics Too Strong?

Science · April 6, 2018

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03:09

The Bird Poop That Changed The World

Science · December 14, 2018

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03:44

Why Exercise Is Hard

Science · September 11, 2019

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03:34

How To Name A Disease (Like COVID-19)

Science · March 20, 2020

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03:33

Why You Can’t Build A Clone Army… (Yet)

Science · May 21, 2020

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How To Go Extinct

Science · July 31, 2020

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How Wildfires Generate Relentless Storms

Science · February 1, 2021

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How Long Did People Use To Live?

Science · June 24, 2021

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Apocalypse Never

Science · September 16, 2021

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Why Bitcoin Is Like Reindeer Mating

Science · December 24, 2021

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Nature Has a Backup Plan And…

Science · April 29, 2022

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The Plant You Don’t Have To Water

Science · October 6, 2022

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Is Pregnancy A Disease?

Science · March 23, 2023

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How To Take A Dinosaur’s Temperature

Science · August 29, 2024

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Why are humans the only animals to wipe their butt?

Science · January 24, 2025

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Another Ancestor Paradox

Science · April 10, 2025

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Women in Science Spotlight: Emmy Noether!

Science · June 3, 2025

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Do Mushrooms Benefit from Being Hallucinogenic?

Science · October 17, 2025

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There’s Really Only One Way To Die

Science · April 1, 2026

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Why do Bats Transmit so many Diseases like Ebola?

Science · August 4, 2014

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03:21

Why do Some Species Thrive in Cities?

Science · March 27, 2015

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02:49

Climate Change: The View From MinuteEarth | #OursToLose

Science · November 23, 2015

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03:06

How We Make MinuteEarth Videos (Behind the Scenes)

Science · May 11, 2016

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02:41

How Humans Made Malaria So Deadly

Science · November 29, 2016

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02:11

Why Most Rain Never Reaches The Ground

Science · May 10, 2017

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02:59

Where Do Our Drugs Come From?

Science · October 13, 2017

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02:43

Milk Is Just Filtered Blood

Science · April 12, 2018

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03:26

How Chaos Makes Your Fingerprints Unique

Science · January 15, 2019

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03:11

How The Modern World Tricks Our Bodies Into Hurting Themselves

Science · October 10, 2019

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10:37

MinuteEarth Explains: Size

Science · March 23, 2020

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03:33

Why You Can’t Build A Clone Army… (Yet)

Science · May 21, 2020

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Why Sewers Around the World Keep Overflowing

Science · August 14, 2020

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How Wildfires Generate Relentless Storms

Science · February 1, 2021

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How Fevers Really Work

Science · July 2, 2021

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The Hurricane Category Scale Is Broken

Science · September 24, 2021

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It’s Alive! (Or Is It?)

Science · January 27, 2022

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