MinuteEarth
Minute Earth
Science and stories about our awesome planet!
- 5 minutes 24 secondsAre Scientists Going Extinct?
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- AI: the general ability of computers to emulate human thought and perform tasks in real-world environments
- Machine learning: a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) that allows systems to learn and improve from data without being explicitly programmed
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23 December 2025, 8:10 am - 4 minutes 21 secondsWhy Don’t All Rivers Make Canyons?
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- Canyon: a deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it.
- River equilibrium: a state in which a river's water flow and sediment transport are balanced.
- River incision: a natural process where a river cuts downward into its bed, deepening the channel
- Tectonic uplift: the geological process that occurs when the Earth's surface rises due to tectonic forces, such as plate movements or volcanic activity.
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22 December 2025, 8:10 am - 1 minute 16 secondsSmallest Rodent
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21 December 2025, 8:10 am - 1 minute 21 secondsLemmings Suicide
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20 December 2025, 8:10 am - 3 minutes 54 secondsWhy Haven't We Cured Cancer?
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- Precision Medicine: A medical model that tailors specific drugs to specific patients based on genetic profiling.
- Functional Precision Medicine: A medical model that involves directly treating live tumor cells with drugs to gain information about a patient's tumor.
- HER2-positive cancer: A type of cancer caused by a specific excess growth factor protein that has been shown to be treatable by specific medications.
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19 December 2025, 8:10 am - 3 minutes 40 secondsElectrical Wires Made Of Bacteria?!
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- Bacterium: a member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms which have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease.
- Electron: a stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solids.
- Metabolism: the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
- Respiration: a process in living organisms involving the production of energy, typically with the intake of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide from the oxidation of complex organic substances.
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18 December 2025, 8:10 am - 4 minutes 3 secondsWhat Happens When Predators Disappear?
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- Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- Herbivore: an animal that feeds on plants.
- Top predator: a predator without natural predators of its own.
- Trophic cascade: an ecological phenomenon triggered by the addition or removal of top predators.
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17 December 2025, 8:10 am - 3 minutes 44 secondsWhy Don't Snakes Poison Themselves?
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- Antibody: a blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen. Antibodies combine chemically with substances which the body recognizes as alien, such as bacteria, viruses, and foreign substances in the blood.
- Globulin: any of a group of simple proteins soluble in salt solutions and forming a large fraction of blood serum protein.
- Poison: a substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed.
- Venom: a poisonous substance secreted by animals such as snakes, spiders, and scorpions and typically injected into prey or aggressors by biting or stinging.
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16 December 2025, 8:10 am - 4 minutes 20 secondsWhy Do Butterflies Bother Being Caterpillars?
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- Metamorphosis: a biological process by which an animal physically develops including birth transformation or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure.
- Holometabolous: a type of metamorphosis (also known as "complete metamorphosis") that involves four distinct stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
- Hemimetamolous: a type of metamorphosis (also known as "incomplete metamorphosis") that includes three distinct stages: the egg, nymph, and the adult stage.
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15 December 2025, 8:10 am - 1 minute 18 secondsHamsters vs Gerbil
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14 December 2025, 8:10 am - 1 minute 12 secondsCategorize Mice
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