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From MinuteEarth. @MinuteEarth and @CBSUnstoppable were just nominated for a Webby! Vote for us here: https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2026/social/social-video-short-form/education-science You’ve probably heard that bees use a complex series of movements – often called the "waggle dance" – to tell other worker bees where to find new sources of nectar…it’s a super clever and sophisticated system. But it turns…
From MinuteEarth. Hydroelectric power plants are not as carbon-free as we thought. By guest writer John Kinney
From MinuteEarth. Even though there are a lot of causes of death out there, they all actually boil down to one thing. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: – Adenosine triphosphate (ATP): the principal molecule for storing and transferring energy in cells SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If…
From MinuteEarth. AI is supposed to make our lives easier, not harder. But IF it were to destroy the world, how would it do this? Note: this video is not made with AI.
From MinuteEarth. I clearly need a trampoline park in my backyard. For plant health.
From MinuteEarth. Help stop the worst parts of factory farming: https://www.farmkind.giving/minute-earth?promo=minute_earth The Quetzalcoatlus – one of the largest pterosaurs that ever lived – was able to fly even though it was the size of a giraffe! How on Earth did this giant manage to fly? LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start…
From MinuteEarth. The strongest collaborations are the most unusual ones! Expert weavers helped get us to the moon by enabling NASA to shrink the size of the Apollo Guidance computer so that it could actually be launched into space.
From MinuteEarth. The death toll of a natural disaster often occurs in the aftermath. For monkey island, the ‘aftermath number’ was 25. But the average hurricane has an aftermath number over 200.
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From MinuteEarth. Hunting coyotes can lead to MORE coyotes. If we want to control the coyote population, we will need to look at other approaches.
From MinuteEarth. Snake antivenom is really difficult and expensive to produce, so it’s not always available to those who need it. However, scientists are working on ways to make it cheaper and more accessible.
From MinuteEarth. To learn more, check out www.scienceawarenessproject.org Most medical science moves at super-speed; researchers are constantly developing new medications, techniques, surgeries, you name it. Except for antibiotics: we haven’t gotten a single new type of antibiotic ready to give to patients in over 40 years. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic,…
From MinuteEarth. Understanding the likely cause of this miracle doesn’t make it any less miraculous! Prodigiosin and its derivatives are investigated for their anti-cancer properties.
From MinuteEarth. "What is a species" is one of those questions feels like it should be easy to answer. Except it keeps getting more complicated.
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From MinuteEarth. Society has changed really fast – so fast that lots of species cannot keep up. This is one of the reasons birds fly into windows and why beachfront lights really confuse baby turtles.
From MinuteEarth. This is Part 2 of Miranda Cosgrove’s favorite episodes of Science Minute. We teamed up with Miranda Cosgrove to make Science Minute with MinuteEarth, an illustrated segment for her TV show: Mission Unstoppable. If you like this, there’s a ton more over at @CBSUnstoppable or, if you’re in the US, watch the new…
From MinuteEarth. And yes, you HAVE heard of the frequency illusion before! It could even be on our channel.