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We could generate a lot of usable energy from human and animal poop through greater adoption of a process for using microbes to break down poop into methane gas.

Bamboo is the world’s fastest growing plant thanks to the cell elongation process it shares with all grasses and its unique cell wall layering adaptation, allowing it to shoot up to 100 ft (30m) in just 8 weeks.

When a group of apes got split apart, slight differences in their new environments led to big differences in future generations.

Earth's ocean water is continuous. How can we divide it into sections that are more useful?

Wood is abundant and full of energy, but outside of some insects, almost no animals eat it because the stuff it's made of is hard to break down.

We’ve changed - and standardized - the way diseases get named because the old way was often stigmatizing and confusing.

We've worked as a team - remotely - for seven years, and we're sharing some of our favorite tips for making it work.

Our modern lifestyle and diet are leading to the extinction of parts of our microbiome, but we can use what we've learned from dealing with nearly-extinct macrobiota, like bald eagles, to understand the consequences and find solutions.

Many of the bewildering correlations in our world - like that between Beryllium-7 and the Asian monsoon - are a result of huge and unseen forces that tie them together.

We've known for millennia that lead pipes could make us sick, so why are we still drinking from them?

Sounds that animals make can be really different, and it turns out that there's a reason why some species communicate with certain sounds.

Because of the way genetic reprogramming works, it’s hard to make one clone based on an adult cell, and it’s almost impossible to make a second-generation one.

It’s hard to replace jet fuel because the alternatives aren’t energetic enough, are too dangerous, or aren’t yet being made at scale.

Although coal is such an amazing energy source that we've kept using it despite the harm it causes, today we may be better poised to stop using it than at any previous time in history.

As we see a rise in misinformation on YouTube, educational channels like MinuteEarth need your support today more than ever.

We’ll each have at least $100,000 more in our piggy banks, on average, if we stop climate change than if we don’t.

Although it’s not likely to happen soon, someday gas stations may be replaced by (or turn into) another type of fueling station, because no fuel or mode of transportation is forever.

Throughout history and around the world, most people dislike hyenas. But why?

Our new evolution simulator reveals that extinction often happens when conditions change quickly.

The old combined sewer systems of many major cities are no match for modern storms and impermeable surfaces.

Some aquarium hobbyists will pay $10,000 or more for a single shrimp because of the rarity of their colors or patterns.

There’s a huge seasonal difference in death rates that is propelled by a variety of factors including pathogen behavior and anatomical response to temperature changes.

Sounds in the ocean can travel more than 10,000 miles - that's halfway around the world! Here's how.

Here’s what happened when more than a dozen of our favorite channels got together to blindly make a video with one another.

Not all hardwood trees have hard wood and softwoods soft wood, because these terms denote their taxonomic ancestry, not the wood's actual hardness.

The lab-on-a-stick that lets us know if we’re pregnant is a genius bit of technology that can be used to quickly determine everything from whether there are nuts in our chocolate to whether we have COVID.

We've all experienced thunder, but what ARE all those claps, booms, and rumbles?

Surprisingly, flattened fauna can teach us a lot about wildlife biology.

Burning a marshmallow can release more energy than detonating an equal mass of TNT...so why isn't a marshmallow as dangerous?

There’s lots of debate as to which original starter Pokémon is the best fighter among squirtle, bulbasaur, charmander, and pikachu, but only one is the most biologically plausible.

The amount of metal some special plants are able to take up from the soil would be toxic enough to an average plant to kill it several times over.

For some birds, trying to cheat your neighbors into raising your babies is just as much work - and is no more successful - than doing it yourself.