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Thanks to the ASCEND project for partnering with us on this video! Every species on Earth has a fingerprint - whether or not they have fingers at all.

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Most trees reach for the sun – but not the weeping willow. Why?

Check out the MinuteFood video on Teflon here: youtu.be/R1hbV3EzOD4 PFAS - also known as the “forever chemicals” we use in all sorts of household products - are able to cause all sorts of

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Many of the greatest biological dispersal events in history likely happened because animals inadvertently traveled across the oceans on floating debris.

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Download the Tab For A Cause browser extension at tab.gladly.io/trees/minuteearth2 Meteorite hunters don’t search for meteorites in the places most frequently peppered by them – they go to

Watch these amazing rewilding videos from our friends at Planet Wild, in which they’re saving Europe’s cutest bird from extinction or resurrecting a dying forest.

Learn more at naturecanada.ca/lostinthewoods By overcounting how much carbon their forests suck up, and undercounting how much carbon their industries release, countries undercount

Coral reef fish get away with being colorful thanks to a weird quirk of underwater optics.

In 1990, fossil collectors in South Dakota stumbled across a dinosaur that turned out to be a really big deal. Not just because it was a T.

The Acheulean handaxe was the most common tool of early humans, but we still don’t know what the heck they used it for.

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It’s common to call creepy crawlies bugs, but because entomologists refer to a specific class of insects as bugs, it’s wrong to call other things bugs - right?

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If you like this video, you'll love what we're cooking up over at MinuteFood! Check it out at youtube.com/minutefood We actually have no idea what a “disease” is.

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Download the Tab For A Cause browser extension at tabforacause.org/minuteearth2 When it comes to the mating game, fish have some of the strangest ways of thwarting the competition.

Check out DeepMind's AlphaFold - and marvel at the complex 3D structure of proteins - at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk A simple mis-folding in a certain brain protein causes a disease for which we

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This video was made in partnership with Gates Ventures. The shape of a farm can tell you a surprising amount about the land it's on and the people that use it.

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Check out the recipients of the 2022 Future of Life Award at futureoflife.org/future-of-life-award Nuclear war is a terrifying existential threat, but we shouldn't only fear the blasts

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This video was made in partnership with Gates Ventures. Energy use can be confusing – I mean, how do you compare gasoline in your car to electricity piped to your house?