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- Tasmanian Tumors
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2 min - Wallaby Milk
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2 min - Is There A Better Way To Power Airplanes?
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Jet fuel - a liquid petroleum fuel with high specific energy and energy density, used in airplane jet engines, made of kerosene with a few additives
- Specific Energy - how much energy something contains per unit mass
- Energy Density - how much energy something contains per unit volume
- Synthetic jet fuel - a jet fuel replacement, typically aiming to have lower life cycle environmental impacts than jet fuel (AKA: sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), alternative jet fuel, renewable aviation fuel, renewable jet fuel, biojet fuel, sustainable alternative fuel)
- Kerosene - a petroleum product that is the main component of jet fuel (and old fashioned lanterns)
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4 min - Why You Can't Build A Clone Army... (Yet)
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Cell: The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism.
- Clone: An organism produced asexually from one ancestor, to which they are genetically identical.
- DNA: Deoxyribonucleic acid, a self-replicating material that is present in nearly all living organisms as the main component of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.
- Embryo: An unborn or unhatched offspring early in the process of development.
- Enzyme: A substance produced by a living organism that acts as a catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction.
- Gene: A unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring. These are encoded within DNA and help determine traits.
- Genetic Reprogramming: This refers to erasing and remodeling epigenetic marks, such as DNA methylation during mammalian development.
- Zygote: A diploid cell resulting from the fusion of two haploid gametes
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4 min - Why Wolves Don't Chirp
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- frequency - how often a wave occurs in a certain unit of time
- Hertz - a unit of frequency (Hz), the number of waves that occus in a second
- pitch - a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale
- echolocation - the location of objects by reflected sound
- refraction - the change in direction of a wave
- diffraction - the bending of waves around obstacles and the spreading out of waves beyond openings
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5 min - Why Do We STILL Use Lead Pipes?!
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Hard water: water with a high mineral content
- Soft water: water with a low mineral content
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5 min - This Atom Can Predict The Future
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Monsoon: A seasonal increase in precipitation driven by atmospheric conditions.
- Hadley Cell: A global scale atmospheric cell driven by air rising near the equator and falling as it flows towards the polls.
- Ferrel Cell: A secondary atmospheric circulation that collides with the Hadley cell and pushes air back down towards the Earth’s surface.
- Intertropical Convergence Zone: The narrow zone between the northern and southern Hadley cells where warm air comes together and rises.
- Tropopause: The boundary area roughly 15 kilometers above the Earth’s surface between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
- Radionuclide: Isotopes of atoms that release radiation as they break down.
- Beryllium-7: A relatively stable radionuclide of the element Beryllium that naturally forms in the tropopause during spallation.
- Spallation: The process in which a heavier atom loses nuclear particles after being bombarded by cosmic rays.
- Cosmic Rays: High energy atomic particles that move at near light speed through space.
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4 min - Poop vs. Pap
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2 min - Opossum vs. Possum
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2 min - The Extinction Happening Inside You
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Extinction: the termination of a kind of organism or group of kinds, usually a species
- Endangered: a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future
- Microbiome: a community of microorganisms (such as bacteria, fungi, and protists) that inhabit a particular environment and especially the collection of microorganisms living in or on the human body
- Hunter-gatherer: a member of a culture in which food is obtained by hunting, fishing, and foraging rather than by agriculture or animal husbandry
- Prevotella: a genus of bacteria most commonly found in the microbiome of people who eat a plant-rich diet
- DDT: an aromatic organochlorine sometimes used as insecticide banned in the U.S. that tends to accumulate and persist in ecosystems and has toxic effects on many vertebrates
- C. diff: (short for Clostridium difficile) a toxin-producing bacterium which can infect the bowel, causing illness with diarrhea and fever, especially in people who have been treated with antibiotics
- Antibiotics: an antibacterial substance (such as penicillin, cephalosporin, and ciprofloxacin) that is used to treat or prevent infections by killing or inhibiting the growth of bacteria in or on the body
- Probiotics: a microorganism that when consumed (as in a food or a dietary supplement) maintains or restores beneficial bacteria to the digestive tract
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About 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.
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