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There’s an island in the Caribbean where David used to perform magic tricks for monkeys. And it was super cool because i...

One of the best ways of studying bacteria is to grow them on a petri dish, but only a tiny percentage of bacterial speci...

When we say a meme goes “viral,” we aren't actually saying it's making people sick. But the math behind a meme’s spread...

You can think of the ovaries and testicles as little factories that produce eggs and sperm. The egg and the sperm can tr...

Just over a decade ago, the last native speaker of Yurok died. And the language – which had been spoken by indigenous pe...

Most of you know I'm a big fan of carnivores, and a big fan of food. So I've long wondered why - considering all the ani...

There are many steps to creating our videos and a lot of the work is never seen by anyone outside of our team. The very...

Hi friends! This month's patron digital download is a classic MinuteEarth drawing - and it's one we find ourselves using...

Over the last year, we at MinuteEarth and MinutePhysics have had the privilege of working with NASA's Heliophysics Educa...

Solar eclipses can happen anywhere on earth, but if you want to see a total eclipse, you need to go to the far north, be...

When a ship sinks, lots of factors, like the ship’s materials, the water quality, and the depth of the seafloor all play...

A few weeks ago, we published a video about statistics and old Tumblr memes - and this was a weird one in every way poss...

Hey friends!What do YouTubers and crustaceans have in common? In this video, we use the phenomenon of “carcinization” -...

Hey friends! We have a new video this week that’s a bit different from our regular ones. Normally, the ideas for our vid...

Hey friends,In the past months, YouTube has allowed us to beta-test the new thumbnail testing feature. This feature allo...