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- Why Do India And China Have So Many People?
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4 min - Why Is Syrup Sticky?
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4 min - Our Definition For “Moon” Is Broken (Collab. w/ MinutePhysics)
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Moon: a natural satellite of a satellite of a star.
- Satellite: A celestial body orbiting a larger celestial body.
- Orbit: The path followed by one object revolving around another object under the influence of gravity.
- Barycenter: The center of mass that two or more bodies orbit around.
- Binary System: A system in which two similarly sized object orbit the same barycenter.
- Hydrostatic equilibrium: Roundness that occurs when gravity is balanced by a pressure gradient force.
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4 min - UPSIDE-DOWN Rivers On Mars?! (Response to MinutePhysics)
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Inverted relief: a topographic feature, such as an old riverbed, that has reversed its elevation relative to other features.
- Duricrust: a hard mineral crust formed at or near the surface of soil in semiarid regions by the evaporation of groundwater.
- Geomorphology: the study of the physical features of the surface of the earth and their relation to its geological structures.
- Exhumed paleochannel: a remnant of an inactive river or stream channel that has been either filled or buried by younger sediment, and then subsequently uncovered by erosion.
- Erosion: the action of surface processes, including wind and water, that move dirt and rock from their original location to some other place.
- Capillary action: the tendency of a liquid in a capillary tube or absorbent material to rise or fall as a result of surface tension.
- Mineral precipitation: when dissolved compounds in a solution bond together to form a solid (a simple example is how dissolved sodium and chloride ions come together to form salt as water evaporates)
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4 min - TRANSPARENT Solar Panels?!
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Solar window: a window that functions like an ordinary window but also generates power like a solar panel
- Nanoparticle (also called nanopowder or nanocluster or nanocrystal): a microscopic particle with at least one dimension less than 100 nm. These tiny objects often have characteristics that differ from larger versions of the same material.
- Quantum dots (QD): tiny nanoparticles of some kind of semiconducting material, only several nanometers in size, so small that their optical and electronic properties differ from those of larger particles. The QDs embedded in solar windows can absorb radiation largely in short wavelengths and re-emit in longer wavelengths; useful for capturing solar energy and successfully transferring it to the solar cells on the edges of the pane.
- Total internal reflection: a phenomenon in which a wave hits a medium boundary at such an angle that it doesn't pass through to the other side
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3 min - Cassowary Poop
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2 min - Gorilla Poop
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2 min - Why It Sucks to Be a Male Hyena
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Sex role reversed species: a species in which males and females exhibit roles other than what might be expected based on other aspects of their biology and mating systems
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4 min - Invasion Of The Earthworms!
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Invasive species: A non-native species that causes harm to the ecosystem.
- Biome: A large, naturally occurring community of flora and fauna.
- Duff layer: The moderately to highly decomposed organic material between the leaf litter and the soil.
- Seedling: A young plant less than one meter high.
- Sapling: A young tree that’s bigger than a seedling.
- Graminoids: Herbaceous plants and grasses.
- Coevolution: The process that occurs when two closely associated species influence each other’s evolutionary paths.
- Savanna: A grassy plain with scattered tree coverage.
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3 min - Why So Many Meteorites Come From The Same Place
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Asteroid: A rocky body smaller than a planet that is orbiting the sun.
- Meteoroid: A smaller rocky body moving in the solar system.
- Meteor: A meteoroid that has entered the Earth’s atmosphere.
- Meteorite: A meteor that hits the Earth.
- Orbital resonance: A force that occurs when orbiting bodies exert a regular, periodic gravitational influence on each other, because of the length of their relative orbits.
- Kirkwood Gap: A dip in the distribution of main belt asteroids that correspond to the locations of orbital resonances with Jupiter.
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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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