MinuteEarth

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From the creators of the popular science show with millions of YouTube subscribers comes the MinuteEarth podcast. Every episode of the show dives deep into a science question you might not even know you had - but once you hear the answer, you’ll want to share it with everyone you know. Our team of scientists digs into the research and breaks it down into a short, entertaining explanation jam-packed with science facts and terrible puns. We’ll tell the incredible story of how monkeys crossed the Atlantic ocean on natural rafts, and we’ll explain why it gets hotter the deeper you dig underground.

Recent Episodes
  • How Much Air Can A Tree Hold?
    May 9, 2025 – 02:05
  • Why Are Adults So Bad At New Languages?
    May 8, 2025 – 03:17
  • How The Modern World Tricks Our Bodies Into Hurting Themselves
    May 7, 2025 – 03:39
  • Why Exercise Is Hard
    May 6, 2025 – 04:04
  • The Secret Global Sewer System
    May 5, 2025 – 03:52
  • Keeled dragons
    May 4, 2025 – 01:16
  • Four-limbed dragons
    May 3, 2025 – 01:14
  • How We Evolved To Browse The Web
    May 2, 2025 – 04:10
  • Our Best View Of Bacteria Is...From Space?!
    May 1, 2025 – 03:54
  • The Bacteria That Made Life Possible Is Now Killing Us
    Apr 30, 2025 – 03:50
  • The Cruel Irony Of Air Conditioning
    Apr 29, 2025 – 04:01
  • Why We Should Invest In Rat Massage
    Apr 28, 2025 – 04:48
  • Baloo
    Apr 27, 2025 – 01:18
  • Wood Lignin
    Apr 26, 2025 – 01:19
  • Monoclonal Antibodies | How to Turn Cancer Against Itself
    Apr 25, 2025 – 03:50
  • Why you should abandon some of your dreams
    Apr 24, 2025 – 03:00
  • Why kids skip school (& what to do about it)
    Apr 23, 2025 – 02:56
  • This Country Has Something Everyone Else Wants
    Apr 22, 2025 – 03:59
  • The Secrets of Extreme Breath Holding
    Apr 21, 2025 – 03:37
  • Panda Coloring
    Apr 20, 2025 – 01:12
  • Grolar Bears
    Apr 19, 2025 – 01:27
  • Why Is Lyme Disease Getting Worse?
    Apr 18, 2025 – 03:37
  • Why Can't We Get Power From Waves?
    Apr 17, 2025 – 03:09
  • You Are A Fish
    Apr 16, 2025 – 03:30
  • The Problem With Concrete
    Apr 15, 2025 – 03:39
  • Why Earthquakes Are So Hard To Predict
    Apr 14, 2025 – 04:11
  • Black Bears
    Apr 13, 2025 – 01:17
  • Let’s Categorize Bears
    Apr 12, 2025 – 01:19
  • Why Are Your Fingerprints Unique?
    Apr 11, 2025 – 03:33
  • The Bird Poop That Changed The World
    Apr 10, 2025 – 04:02
  • These Names Can Kill Animals
    Apr 9, 2025 – 03:57
  • Why Are Fewer People Getting Appendicitis?
    Apr 8, 2025 – 02:53
  • Why Do You Make So Many Poop Videos? (& Other Questions)
    Apr 7, 2025 – 06:46
  • Lion’s Mane
    Apr 6, 2025 – 01:15
  • River Timelapse
    Apr 5, 2025 – 01:12
  • The Secret Weapon That Could Help Save Bees
    Apr 4, 2025 – 03:18
  • Why Malaria Isn’t Just A Tropical Disease
    Apr 3, 2025 – 03:04
  • Why Do Some Animals Eat Poop?
    Apr 2, 2025 – 04:12
  • Why Are There Penguins At The Equator?
    Apr 1, 2025 – 02:57
  • Why Earth Has Two Levels | Hypsometric Curve
    Mar 31, 2025 – 03:24
  • Carbonaceous Chondrite
    Mar 30, 2025 – 01:19
  • Planet Formation
    Mar 29, 2025 – 01:25
  • The Similarity Trap
    Mar 28, 2025 – 02:53
  • Rise Of The Mesopredator🎵
    Mar 27, 2025 – 04:59
  • How Long Can We Live?
    Mar 26, 2025 – 03:38
  • When Trees Go Nuts
    Mar 25, 2025 – 03:17
  • Why You Shouldn't Give Ginger To Monkeys (and other animal sayings)
    Mar 24, 2025 – 03:17
  • Mountain Sink
    Mar 23, 2025 – 01:13
  • Mars River
    Mar 22, 2025 – 01:30
  • Milk Is Just Filtered Blood
    Mar 21, 2025 – 02:53
Recent Reviews
  • gsmdks
    Stop bullying creators
    People, stop complains about adds how else are they supposed to pay for their AMAZING show by the way
  • Nickname&CUBsidk
    Pick up ur game!!!
    Actually record a podcast. Be more careful that the audio doesn’t talk about pictures. Get the titles correct. Give us more minute minis content. 😠😡😤
  • Dr pepper 09
    Too many ads
    Like the show, but too many ads
  • Something oddly
    Should be called: MinuteAdds
    1 minute of adds for 20 seconds of content 👎🏼
  • Capt Benjamin Sisko
    DNA Testing Episode - Bad Advice
    Todays episode asked if it was safe to get your DNA tested. You gave some bad advice with some good advice. First, the best advice is to not freely provide your DNA to anyone. Do you really want Big Brother being able to track what you do as time moves on and government rules or behavior change? How about the hackers? It isn’t like all breaches are because of poor passwords. How can you trust any company who says they will delete your data at your request? Are you going to go on their word? How do you know they honored that? Do you have a top-level administrative account to audit their databases, servers, file systems, and backups? You are simply trusting them. Bad way to go. The only good thing you said in this was to use a different username\email address and password for any account you setup. However, You are fooling yourself if you think this makes you safe in this scenario.
  • Sillyvalley
    Audio only on Apple Podcasts
    This feed used to have complete video-audio content. I loved the super cute animations and the content was very engaging. But after years of hiatus, it came back with an audio only feed, most of them if not all just extracted audio from old video recordings. You can feel that they were produced to accompany some visual. Often the audio cannot stand alone and become meaningless.
  • F. Henderson
    Highly disappointing
    This is not a podcast but only the audio potion of a video. Very poor choice and considering some episodes are 1:20+ commercials compared to :20 of content, it seems to be nothing more than a blatant cash grab. NOT reommended.
  • Nerdy Pete
    Is this a video podcast with audio only?!?
    Wow—the podcast on measuring the speed of light in a microwave was very frustrating as too much referenced a video I could not see. I am guessing this can be watched on YouTube. But I’m not watching it there, I am listening to it on my favorite podcast app. It would be great if you could write copy that doesn’t directly reference visuals that we can’t see. You could easily write your copy so it doesn’t blatantly show off that you’re just repurposing a video for audio audiences. I get that it makes financial sense but write your copy to compensate for that. It’s very frustrating to want to learn something but I can’t because you aren’t writing for audio. The narrator literally said “ the speed of light” without telling us what it was. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Otherwise, it’s a good podcast with interesting information. I wish the commercials weren’t as long or longer than the content sometimes. The other day the content was like two sentences.
  • Girl nerd Samantha
    I love it sooooo much!
    I love it and it is so beautiful and educational for teens and adults and kids! Joy to the world because I am your biggest fan!! Yay!!
  • Sascha4real
    Too much ads
    2 mins of show with 1min of advertisements? Have you no shame. Especially since it's often the same ad over and over 🤪This is gross it's a Assualt on your listeners.
  • Dodgers006
    Ok
    Interesting podcast but not appropriate for kids. Wouldn’t recommend
  • Benevolent Sociopath
    Almost really good
    The ads run longer than the actual episodes It’s more of an idea/ a hook for actual episodes.
  • I’m a car called bob.
    Never heard it
    I am a car 🚗 🏎️🚙🚕🚓🚘🚖🚔🏁🚋🚃🚠🚡ps? Why would I do that? Wait I’m doing that right now as you read this in the near future……….. do we have hover cars yet? PSs I am still a car psss are you one?? Pssss I like 🥒🍅aka Larry and bob from another show du.
  • 104526wa
    Good :)just it’s really fast:(
    Spot the difference 1☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️😊☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️spot the difference 2😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😀😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 spot the difference three😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😥😰😰😰😰😰 spot the difference four 😈😈😈😈😈😈😈👿😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈 spot the difference five😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😑😐😐😐😐😐😐 spot the different six🧝‍♀️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♀️ spot the difference seven🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️ spot the difference eight🧑‍🦯🧑‍🦯🧑‍🦯🧑‍🦯🧑‍🦯🧑‍🦯👨‍🦯🧑‍🦯🧑‍🦯🧑‍🦯🧑‍🦯🧑‍🦯 can you find the differences can you find the differences?
  • Sushiswiftie
    Love it
    I love ur show 👍
  • number 1 waveform fan
    wah
    pödcast :)
  • croakust
    Pretty good
    I wish they would update more tho😕
  • 🍎⌚️
    It’s so good I like all the videos!!
    Nothing I’d really say that’s bad about it. I’d say is it’s so good. 👏👏👏👏👉THE BEST👈
  • NameEzHard :<
    They live
    THEY ARE STILL ALIVE LET US REJOICE
  • in-app purchase not restoring
    Best podcast ever
    I love it because it can break down puzzling question into perfectly animated 2-3 minute videos that make you feel just a bit smarter about the world. Also you have to love the funny (and corny) jokes sprinkled about. If I could I would rank it 6/5
  • jjjjjjjhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiii hi
    How about hour earth?
    You can make another channel call hour earth where you make an hour long video (and it’s pretty funny because hour earth our earth) Still would recommend it to anyone 10/10
  • Elless05
    Great
    Amazing podcast
  • Human #6293839583
    First Review In A Year Apparently
    👍
  • PRP3500
    How to See Microbes From Space
    No audio using “Podcast” on iPad. Works on You Tube.
  • AidanGlendenning
    Great
    Great
  • Samuel the Ratingmaster 🥤
    Of Great!
    Of Great!
  • derpasouris
    Sextuplets
    Sextuplets
  • D.M.Bee
    Eh
    Eh
  • Gledson.h
    Best science podcast!!
    I love this podcast! It's really entertaining and I feel a little smarter after each episode, so it's guilty-free brain indulgence. If you haven't tried it yet, this one is a must for anyone with a curiosity about science. The content is rich, but they manage to break it down so I can understand it. 😁
  • Scm01 the master
    Physics & earth
    I love minute earth and physics thanks for making them podcasts
  • YGlen
    Great Content!
    Only wish a minutes was longer sometimes.
  • Sciguy2
    Outstanding shorts
    3 minutes of some of the most creative scientific ideas I have ever seen.
  • topsieeturviee
    Awesome but needs more structure
    This podcast is awesome and I would give it a full five stars if it was a little more structured with when they release each podcast. Other than that, keep up the good work, MinuteEarth!
  • CLBREEZE.T
    The best podcast ever!
    Loving the podcast! Will do my best to support :)
  • Foster Douglas (App Store)
    Awesome!
    Great, keep up the quality information!
  • DivProg
    Crazily Educative
    This podcast is awesome. So much have learned from it.
  • Tonto Fig
    uggh
    This podcast seemed to have a lot of promise, until I saw the segment on "global warming/climate change". You folks never give up, do you? You've lost all credibility by pushing the fraudulent "science" of global warming. I'm not fond of science with a political agenda.
  • imlivingamber
    SAMOA
    I am samoan and my dad is from samoa. I think this is so cool that the first thing I watched had to do with that :)! Awesome show. I subscribed :)))
  • Dr_Catcatcat
    Great Podcast!!!
    It is really great!!! Very acknowledged and really interesting!!!! Thanks!
  • Mike L.
    Information mostly correct
    I like the science in simple words the only fault was the "400 parts in a million experiment" did not provide information on OTHER sources of climate change. I think it was misleading.
  • Chris of Ohio
    Thank you,teaching me
    Thank you for teaching me about the earth and the wonder things about life,This might sound a little bit crazy but you teach me more then teacher ever has,and Im 12! Well thank you for taking your time to read this minute earth.Keep making videos!
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