MinuteEarth
Science and stories about our awesome planet!
Minute Earth
Show overview
MinuteEarth has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 514 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 25 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.
Episodes typically run under ten minutes — most land between 2 min and 4 min — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 63 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 363 episodes published. Published by Minute Earth.
From the publisher
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 you had - but once you hear the answer, you’ll want to share it with everyone you know. Our team of scientists digs into the research and breaks it down into a short, entertaining explanation jam-packed with science facts and terrible puns. We’ll tell the incredible story of how monkeys crossed the Atlantic ocean on natural rafts, and we’ll explain why it gets hotter the deeper you dig underground.
Latest Episodes
View all 514 episodesWhy Bees Mostly Ignore The Waggle Dance
Fetus Poop
Biological Control
There’s Really Only One Way To Die
yellow crazy ants
Invasive species
Could This Thing *Really* Fly?
Delta Works
Hottest Place
When Does It Make Sense To Kill Your Sibling?
Cold Sap
Frozen Trees
40 Years Without A New Antibiotic. Why?
Before rainforests
Rainforests
Why Hives Turn Against Their Queens
Garbage again
Garbage
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Why Haven't We Domesticated Monkeys?
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Domestication: The long term, multi-generational process of selectively breeding animals to modify their traits to make them more useful to humans. Zoonosis: An infection spread between animals and humans. Domestication, monkeys, capuchin, primate, zoonosis, pet monkey. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Buy our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Buy our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Deep Sea Fish
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Buy our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Buy our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices