MinuteEarth

By Minute Earth

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 y... more

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March 30, 2025 Carbonaceous Chondrite
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March 29, 2025 Planet Formation
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March 28, 2025The Similarity Trap
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
Cladistics: A method of recreating evolutionary trees based on evidence about relationships.
Etymology: The study of the origin of words and how they have changed throughout history.
Convergent Evolution: A process whereby different species evolve similar traits in order to adapt to similar environments.
Polyphyly: A group containing members with multiple ancestral sources.
Homoplasy: A trait shared by a group of species that is not shared in their common ancestor.
False Cognates: Pairs of words with similar sounds and meanings but unrelated etymologies.

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March 27, 2025Rise Of The Mesopredator🎵
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Food Web: the feeding relationships between animals that determine how energy and nutrients are spread throughout an ecosystem.
Trophic Level: a hierarchical level in an ecosystem made up of organisms that share the same function in the food web.
Apex predator: the animals at the top trophic level that feed on animals and organisms below them.
Mesopredator: a member of a mid-ranking trophic level that preys on animals and organisms in lower trophic levels and occasionally gets eat by apex predators.
Mesopredator Release: an ecological phenomenon in which mesopredators rapidly grow in population once apex predators are removed from an ecosystem.
Trophic Cascade: a series of dramatic changes in an ecosystem often triggered by mesopredator release.

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March 26, 2025How Long Can We Live?
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Mortality plateau: the leveling out of the mortality rate that is observed at late ages in various species

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March 25, 2025When Trees Go Nuts
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Mast Year: A year in which all the plants of a particular species in a region ramp up their seed production.
Predator Satiation Hypothesis: The hypothesis that mast seeding is a strategy plants use for controlling the population of squirrels and other seed-eating animals.

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March 24, 2025Why You Shouldn't Give Ginger To Monkeys (and other animal sayings)
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Sunshower: A meteorological phenomenon in which the sunshines while rain is falling.
Idiom: A group of words whose meaning is not readily understandable by defining the individual words.
Anthropomorphism: The attribution of human characteristics to an animal or god or object.
Linguistic Anthropology: A field of study into how language shapes communication around the world.

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March 23, 2025 Mountain Sink
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March 22, 2025 Mars River
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March 21, 2025Milk Is Just Filtered Blood
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Mammal: Endothermic vertebrates that nurse their young.
Lactation: The secretion of milk by the mammary glands.
Mammary Gland: A cluster of alveoli and ducts that secretes milk.
Mammary Alveoli: The tiny sacs that are the site of milk production and storage in the mammary gland.
Oxytocin: A hormone released by the pituitary gland that - among other things - causes the milk ejection reflex during nursing.
Holstein: A large black and white cow known for the large quantities of milk it yields.

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