Why Don’t All Rivers Make Canyons?

From MinuteEarth. MinutePhysics Patreon: https://patreon.com/MinutePhysics MinuteEarth Tee Club: https://store.dftba.com/products/minuteearth-dtg-quarterly-t-shirt-subscription MinuteEarth Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/4UAIynceNXkp3zNjUV5IyH?si=3dfb7867cd9f4e44 MinuteEarth Podcast (Apple Podcasts): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minuteearth/id649211176 The Grand Canyon is super-wide and super-deep, which might make you think that the Colorado River, which carved it, is particularly old or powerful. Or at least that’s what I thought. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more…

Why Haven’t We Cured Cancer?

From MinuteEarth. To learn more about Florida International University’s research, visit https://FIU.edu A person’s genes alone don’t tell us enough about how to most effectively treat their cancer. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: – Precision Medicine: A medical model that tailors specific drugs to specific…

We Only Discovered This 10 Years Ago

From MinuteEarth. Most living things on Earth need oxygen to survive, but scientists discovered a species of bacteria that uses oxygen totally differently from every other organism on Earth. To learn more about Aarhus University’s research on cable bacteria, click here: https://bio.au.dk/forskning/forskningscentre/center-for-elektromikrobiologi-cem LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with…

What Happens When Predators Disappear?

From MinuteEarth. To learn more about how Florida International University’s research, visit https://FIU.edu A world without predators. It sounds like a safer, happier world, but come on, this is SCIENCE… LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: – Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their…