MinuteEarth

Most living things on Earth need oxygen to survive, but scientists discovered a species of bacteria that uses oxygen totally differently from every other organism on Earth! Watch our latest video about the strange and wonderful Cable Bacteria here: https://lnkd.in/eUtimHrU

How long would it take for people to notice their weight gain if the mean radius of the world increased by 1 cm every second? Hours? Days? Months? We do the math with xkcd in our latest video: https://lnkd.in/dfAMkMKc

A world without predators. It sounds like a safer, happier world, but come on, this is SCIENCE… Watch the disaster unfold in our latest video: https://lnkd.in/e2-MbhC6

Some animals carry a lot of toxic chemicals, so how do they prevent themselves from getting sick? Let's pick apart some poison in our latest video: https://lnkd.in/edJMxJrZ

What if a glass of water was, all of a sudden, literally half empty? The pessimist is probably more right about how it would turn out than the optimist. See what would happen in our latest xkcd collab video: https://lnkd.in/e3QZkwCD

Why would any species completely change its body plan? While it's pretty cool, it seems inefficient. And why don't humans sprout wings at some point? We look into the weird world of metamorphosis in our latest video: https://lnkd.in/e_3iVcAB

There's a lot we don't know about dinosaurs: the sound they would make, what color they would have had, or what their behaviour was like. But there's something we do know: their temperature. Check out our new video on how you would measure your T-Rex's temperature: https://lnkd.in/esAXDm52

The Queen Bee rules the hive. But why is there no King? More about Bee monarchies in our video: https://lnkd.in/ePnppUdr

Some species seem to have remained exactly the same as their ancient ancestors. Darwin called these 'living fossils'. But he was wrong! These species have changed, but in ways that are not always easy to see. https://lnkd.in/eyCbFgQm

What if... we teleported the Earth's oceans to Mars? The Earth's oceans need to go somewhere after we drain them, after all... A MinuteEarth x xkcd collab! https://lnkd.in/eZJEevRU