Veritasium
(08/15/2010–12/18/2025)Science-FictionMysteryNature
17 min
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Episodes
S2010E01
How long does it take for the earth to go around the sun?
S2010E02
What causes the seasons?
S2011E01
Atomic Theory
S2011E02
Thomson's Plum Pudding Model of the Atom
S2011E03
Cathode Rays Lead to Thomson's Model of the Atom
S2011E04
Scientific Notation - Explained!
S2011E05
I'm Atoms (Scientific Cover of Jason Mraz's I'm Yours)
S2011E06
Scientific Notation - Example
S2011E07
The Difference Between Mass and Weight
S2011E08
Egg Experiment to Demonstrate Inertia
S2011E09
Gravity (Scientific Version of John Mayer's Gravity)
S2011E10
How Far Away is the Moon? (The Scale of the Universe)
S2011E11
What is a Force?
S2011E12
What Forces Are Acting On You?
S2011E13
Why Does the Moon Orbit Earth?
S2011E14
What Is Gravity?
S2011E15
Best Film on Newton's Third Law. Ever.
S2011E16
Calculating Gravitational Attraction
S2011E17
Which Hits The Ground First?
S2011E18
Misconceptions About Falling Objects
S2011E19
Is There Gravity In Space?
S2011E20
Three Incorrect Laws of Motion
S2011E21
Experiments A Cappella
S2011E22
Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos
S2011E23
What Are Atoms and Isotopes?
S2011E24
Supercooled Water - Explained!
S2011E25
How Damaging is Radiation?
S2011E26
What Powers Australia?
S2011E27
Galileo the Scientific Parrot
S2011E28
Radiation vs Radioactive Atoms
S2011E29
Sound + Fire = Rubens' Tube
S2011E30
Types of Radiation
S2011E31
What Is Electricity? (Are You Gonna Be My Girl?)
S2011E32
How Old Is The Earth?
S2011E33
Where Did The Earth Come From?
S2011E34
Veritasium Bungee Jumps!
S2011E35
When Is A Bungee Jumper's Acceleration Max?
S2011E36
Option A - Acceleration of a Bungy Jump
S2011E37
Option B - Acceleration of a Bungy Jump
S2011E38
Option C - Acceleration of a Bungy Jump
S2011E39
Option D - Acceleration of a Bungy Jump
S2011E40
Option E - Acceleration of a Bungy Jump
S2011E41
Can You Perceive Acceleration?
S2011E42
Can You Solve This Shadow Illusion
S2011E43
Misconceptions About Heat
S2011E44
Fire Syringe
S2011E45
Persistence Of Vision
S2011E46
Why Does The Earth Spin?
S2011E47
How Does The Earth Spin?
S2011E48
Why Is Ice Slippery?
S2011E49
Does Pressure Melt Ice?
S2011E50
Ice Cutting Experiment
S2011E51
Ice Cutting Experiment 2
S2011E52
What Is Chemistry?
S2011E53
What Is Water Made Of?
S2011E54
Impress Her With Nanodiamonds
S2011E55
Chain Drop Experiment
S2011E56
Chain Drop Answer 2
S2011E57
What Colour Is Most Attractive?
S2011E58
Imploding Drum
S2011E59
States of Matter
S2011E60
Slinky Drop
S2011E61
Slinky Drop Answer
S2011E62
Slinky Drop Extended
S2011E63
Make Plasma With Grapes In The Microwave!
S2011E64
Supersized Slow-Mo Slinky Drop
S2011E65
Nobel Prize Winner Brian Schmidt - Physics 2011
S2011E66
Physics Nobel Prize 2011 - Brian Schmidt
S2011E67
Can You Go the Speed of Light?
S2011E68
Atomic Rant
S2011E69
What Is The Magnus Force?
S2011E70
A Human Being Is A Part Of The Whole
S2011E71
What Causes The Phases Of The Moon?
S2011E72
How To Make Graphene
S2011E73
Candle Trick
S2012E01
What Is The Coastline Paradox?
S2012E02
Koala Encounters
S2012E03
The Science of Curveballs
S2012E04
World's Longest Straw
S2012E05
Are You Lightest In The Morning?
S2012E06
Spinning Tube Trick
S2012E07
Spinning Tube Trick Explained
S2012E08
Spool Trick
S2012E09
Spinning Tube Trick Answer
S2012E10
Where Do Trees Get Their Mass From?
S2012E11
Why Do You Make People Look Stupid?
S2012E12
Destination: Alaska
S2012E13
What Causes The Northern Lights? (Aurora Borealis)
S2012E14
Where Does The Sun Get Its Energy?
S2012E15
Why Are Astronauts Weightless?
S2012E16
Spinning Disk Trick
S2012E17
Gyroscopic Precession
S2012E18
How Does A Slinky Fall?
S2012E19
Spinning Disk Trick Solution
S2012E20
Transit of Venus! Sydney 2012 Contacts, Contracts and Parallax
S2012E21
Does a Falling Slinky Defy Gravity
S2012E22
Northern Lights From 100,000 ft!
S2012E23
Free Higgs!
S2012E24
Atomic Bonding Song
S2012E25
Veritasium & Team Record Gold Invade London
S2012E26
How Does A Wing Actually Work?
S2012E27
How Does A Sailboat Actually Work?
S2012E28
What's The Best High Jump Technique?
S2012E29
How Does A Boomerang Work?
S2012E30
Misconceptions About Temperature
S2012E31
How Can Trees Be Taller Than 10m?
S2012E32
What's In A Candle Flame?
S2012E33
Making SOLID Nitrogen!
S2012E34
Misconceptions About Falling Objects
S2012E35
Levitating Barbecue! Electromagnetic Induction
S2012E36
What Now For The Higgs Boson?
S2012E37
How Trees Bend the Laws of Physics
S2012E38
World's First Electric Generator
S2012E39
Corn Flour Fireball
S2012E40
How To Clean Up Space Junk
S2012E41
Paralysed Rats Made To Walk Again
S2012E42
What Could Survive An Atomic Bomb?
S2013E01
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Explained
S2013E02
How To Make Colour With Holes
S2013E03
Why Do Venomous Animals Live In Warm Climates?
S2013E04
The Original Double Slit Experiment
S2013E05
What Can Frogs See That We Can't?
S2013E06
Single Photon Interference
S2013E07
World's Roundest Object!
S2013E08
Epic Slow-Mo Drum Implosions!
S2013E09
The Science of Jetpacks and Rockets!
S2013E10
Empty Space is NOT Empty
S2013E11
Your Mass is NOT From the Higgs Boson
S2013E12
Why the Sky ISN'T Blue
S2013E13
Do Aliens Exist?
S2013E14
How Does a Quantum Computer Work?
S2013E15
Can We Really Touch Anything?
S2013E16
How Does a Transistor Work?
S2013E17
How To Make a Quantum Bit
S2013E18
Slow-Mo Non-Newtonian Fluid on a Speaker
S2013E19
The Bullet Block Experiment Everyone Gets Wrong
S2013E20
Bullet Block Explained!
S2013E21
How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work
S2013E22
10 Facts About Great White Sharks
S2013E23
How a Shark Attack Survivor Invented Cage Diving
S2013E24
How We're Fooled By Statistics
S2013E25
Bullet Block Experiment Result
S2013E26
We Tagged a Great White Shark!
S2014E01
Will This Go Faster Than Light?
S2014E02
Facebook Fraud
S2014E03
Can Silence Actually Drive You Crazy?
S2014E04
The Most Common Cognitive Bias
S2014E05
Anti-Gravity Wheel?
S2014E06
Anti-Gravity Wheel Explained
S2014E07
Gravitational Wave Discovery! Evidence of Cosmic Inflation
S2014E08
Why Trees Are Taller Than They Need To Be
S2014E09
Musical Fire Table!
S2014E10
Buoyancy Quiz
S2014E11
Misconceptions About the Universe
S2014E12
Why Women Are Stripey
S2014E13
How Much Information?
S2014E14
What is NOT Random?
S2014E15
5 Fun Physics Phenomena
S2014E16
Explained: 5 Fun Physics Phenomena
S2014E17
Climate Change is Boring
S2014E18
13 Misconceptions About Global Warming
S2014E19
CapitolTV's DISTRICT VOICES - District 5: Electric Sparks From Falling Water
S2014E20
Sparks from Falling Water: Kelvin's Thunderstorm
S2014E21
How Were the Pyramids Built?
S2014E22
The Most Persistent Myth
S2014E23
The Most Radioactive Places on Earth
S2015E01
Would You Take This Bet?
S2015E02
Quantum Entanglement & Spooky Action at a Distance
S2015E03
Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors?
S2015E04
An Astronaut's View of Earth
S2015E05
An Affordable 3D-Printed Arm
S2015E06
How Do Chameleons Change Color?
S2015E07
How YouTube is Like a Potato
S2015E08
Beaker Ball Balance Problem
S2015E09
Explained: Beaker Ball Balance Problem
S2015E10
What I Wish I Knew When I Was Younger
S2015E11
Extended: Beaker Ball Balance Problem
S2015E12
Ice Spikes Explained
S2015E13
The Truth About Toilet Swirl - Southern Hemisphere
S2015E14
Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail
S2015E15
Chernobyl - What It's Like Today
S2015E16
Should This Lake Exist?
S2015E17
Backspin Basketball Flies Off Dam
S2015E18
How to Launch a Nuclear Missile
S2015E19
Evolutionarily Stable Strategies ft. Richard Dawkins
S2015E20
Our Greatest Delusion
S2015E21
The Science of Six Degrees of Separation
S2015E22
Is Glass a Liquid?
S2015E23
The Brightest Part of a Shadow is in the Middle
S2015E24
Snatoms! The Magnetic Molecular Modeling Kit
S2015E25
How Long Will You Live?
S2016E01
Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
S2016E02
What Exactly is the Present?
S2016E03
These Liquids Look Alive!
S2016E04
Why Anecdotes Trump Data
S2016E05
Science of Laser Hair Removal in SLOW MOTION
S2016E06
Svalbard - The Northernmost Town on Earth
S2016E07
Inside the Svalbard Seed Vault
S2016E08
Celsius Made His Thermometer Upside Down
S2016E09
Stringless Yo-Yo!
S2016E10
The Illusion of Truth
S2016E11
Is Most Published Research Wrong?
S2016E12
The Best and Worst Prediction in Science
S2016E13
How the Quantum Vacuum Gave Rise to Galaxies
S2016E14
Why Metals Spontaneously Fuse Together In Space
S2016E15
Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?
S2016E16
What the Fahrenheit?!
S2016E17
Indestructible Coating?!
S2016E18
Post-Truth: Why Facts Don't Matter Anymore
S2017E01
The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves
S2017E02
The Real Moral Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars
S2017E03
Electromagnetic Levitation Quadcopter
S2017E04
3 Sources of Water on the Moon
S2017E05
The Science of Thinking
S2017E06
Does Water Swirl the Other Way in the Southern Hemisphere?
S2017E07
How To Update Your Beliefs Systematically - Bayes' Theorem
S2017E08
4 Revolutionary Riddles
S2017E09
4 Revolutionary Riddles Resolved!
S2017E10
The Sun Sneeze Gene
S2017E11
Fire in ZERO-G!!
S2017E12
Is America Actually Metric?
S2017E13
Mars 2020: Nasa's Next Mission To Mars
S2017E14
World's Heaviest Weight
S2017E15
NEW Gravitational Wave Discovery!
S2017E16
Sandwich Bag Fire Starter
S2017E17
How To See Air Currents
S2017E18
Hydrodynamic Levitation!
S2017E19
How We're Redefining the kg
S2017E20
Total Solar Eclipse (2017)
S2017E21
Schlieren Imaging in Color!
S2017E22
Neutron Star Merger Gravitational Waves and Gamma Rays
S2017E23
Your Body's Molecular Machines
S2017E24
World's First Car!
S2017E25
This Particle Breaks Time Symmetry
S2018E01
Why Mosquitoes Bite Some People More Than Others
S2018E02
The Threat of AI Weapons
S2018E03
Why Einstein Thought Nuclear Weapons Were Impossible
S2018E04
My Life Story
S2018E05
Spinning Sphere of Molten Sodium
S2018E06
The World in UV
S2018E07
Can You Overdose on Vitamins?
S2018E08
Is Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious?
S2018E09
How UV Causes Cancer and Aging
S2018E10
This Toy Can Open Any Garage
S2018E11
Why Boredom is Good For You
S2018E12
What Actually Causes Dandruff?
S2018E13
Drinking in ZERO-G! (and other challenges of a trip to Mars)
S2018E14
The kg is dead, long live the kg
S2018E15
Five Firsts for Mars InSight
S2018E16
How Ultrasound Can Deactivate Parts of the Brain
S2018E17
The Best Test of General Relativity (by 2 Misplaced Satellites)
S2019E01
Spinning Black Holes
S2019E02
The Inverse Leidenfrost Effect
S2019E03
Do Salt Lamps Work
S2019E04
Microwaving Grapes Makes Plasma
S2019E05
Can You Recover Sound From Images?
S2019E06
Why Machines That Bend Are Better
S2019E07
Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?
S2019E08
How Was Video Invented
S2019E09
How to Understand the Black Hole Image
S2019E10
First Image of a Black Hole!
S2019E11
Three Awesome High School Science Projects
S2019E12
Magnetic Micro-Robots
S2019E13
Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?
S2019E14
My Video Went Viral. Here's Why
S2019E15
World's Lightest Solid!
S2019E16
Can You Swim in Shade Balls?
S2019E17
I Waterproofed Myself With Aerogel!
S2019E18
How Cod Saved the Vikings
S2019E19
Why Apollo Astronauts Trained in Nuclear Bomb Craters
S2019E20
Why the Future of Cars is Electric
S2019E21
Mars Helicopter (before it went to Mars)
S2019E22
Making Liquid Nitrogen From Scratch!
S2019E23
Flamethrower vs Aerogel
S2019E24
Does Planet 9 Exist?
S2019E25
The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies, Explained
S2019E26
Engineering with Origami
S2019E27
Why Trees Are Out to Get You
S2019E28
3 Perplexing Physics Problems
S2019E29
Chaos - The Science of the Butterfly Effect
S2019E30
How to Slow Aging (and even reverse it)
S2019E31
Why New Years Resolutions Fail & How To Succeed
S2020E01
This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map)
S2020E02
Parallel Worlds Probably Exist. Here's Why
S2020E03
Turbulent Flow is MORE Awesome Than Laminar Flow
S2020E04
The Launch of Perseverance to Mars
S2020E05
Half the universe was missing... until now
S2020E06
Is Dust Mostly Dead Skin?
S2020E07
Is Success Luck or Hard Work?
S2020E08
How Kodak Exposed The Atomic Bomb
S2020E09
The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats
S2020E10
Why Gravity is NOT a Force
S2020E11
How One Supernova Measured The Universe
S2020E12
Do You Expand With The Universe?
S2020E13
Why no one has measured the speed of light
S2020E14
These are the asteroids to worry about
S2020E15
The Illusion Only Some People Can See
S2021E01
These Pools Help Support Half The People On Earth
S2021E02
I Asked Bill Gates What's The Next Crisis?
S2021E03
Why Robots That Bend Are Better
S2021E04
The Discovery That Transformed Pi
S2021E05
This is why we can't have nice things
S2021E06
The Surprising Secret of Synchronization
S2021E07
This Unstoppable Robot Could Save Your Life
S2021E08
How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room
S2021E09
Math Has a Fatal Flaw
S2021E10
Risking My Life To Settle A Physics Debate
S2021E11
The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment
S2021E12
A Physics Prof Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong
S2021E13
The Biggest Myth In Education
S2021E14
Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now
S2021E15
The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve
S2021E16
The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets
S2021E17
Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
S2021E18
The Universe is Hostile to Computers
S2021E19
Why All Scorpions Are Fluorescent
S2021E20
How Hidden Technology Transformed Bowling
S2021E21
How They Caught The Golden State Killer
S2021E22
This Robot Walks, Flies, Skateboards, Slacklines
S2021E23
I Rented A Helicopter To Settle A Physics Debate
S2021E24
How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented
S2021E25
The Big Misconception About Electricity
S2021E26
Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work
S2021E27
The Snowflake Mystery
S2021E28
The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of
S2022E01
Future Computers Will Be Radically Different
S2022E02
How Horses Save Humans From Snake Bites
S2022E03
The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History
S2022E04
How Electricity Actually Works
S2022E05
Why It Was So Hard To Take This Picture (Very Long Baseline Interferometry)
S2022E06
The Absurd Search For Dark Matter
S2022E07
The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer
S2022E08
The Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions
S2022E09
The 4 things you need to be an expert
S2022E10
World's Highest Jumping Robot
S2022E11
How Dangerous is a Penny Dropped From a Skyscraper?
S2022E12
The Remarkable Story Behind The Most Important Algorithm Of All Time
S2022E13
What If A Star Explodes Near The Earth?
S2022E14
The world depends on a collection of strange items. They're not cheap
S2022E15
Inside The Navy's Indoor Ocean
S2022E16
How To Measure The Tiniest Forces In The Universe
S2022E17
I tested the US Military's secret space weapon
S2022E18
3 Ways Of Seeing Invisible Air Flow
S2023E01
The Stickiest Non-Sticky Substance
S2023E02
143,526 People Agree With Me, 54,536 Disagree
S2023E03
World's Strongest Magnet!
S2023E04
How Quantum Computers Break The Internet... Starting Now
S2023E05
Explaining concrete while getting buried in it
S2023E06
How NASA Reinvented The Wheel
S2023E07
Why Lightbulbs Might Be The Best Idea Ever
S2023E08
The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
S2023E09
The Strange Number System Used Only By Mathematicians
S2023E10
How To Get Venom From The World's Deadliest Spider
S2023E11
The Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics
S2023E12
The Hidden Science of Fireworks
S2023E13
Why Oppenheimer Deserves His Own Movie
S2023E14
How Important is IQ?
S2023E15
Should Airships Make a Comeback?
S2023E16
How The Most Useless Branch of Math Could Save Your Life
S2023E17
All The Times We Nearly Blew Up The World
S2023E18
Extreme Breath-Holding
S2023E19
The Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions (Clean Version)
S2023E20
How One Line in the Oldest Math Text Hinted at Hidden Universes
S2023E21
The Problem With Science Communication
S2023E22
World's Best Night Vision vs World's Darkest Room
S2023E23
What The Longest-Running Study on Happiness Reveals
S2023E24
The Surprising Genius of Sewing Machines
S2023E25
The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong
S2023E26
World's Largest Earthquake Simulator
S2023E27
What The Prisoner's Dilemma Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything
S2024E01
Do People Understand the Scale of the Universe?
S2024E02
The Rainiest Place On Earth
S2024E03
Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
S2024E04
The Trillion Dollar Equation
S2024E05
The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math
S2024E06
How The Most Expensive Swords In The World Are Made
S2024E07
Why is this number everywhere?
S2024E08
Something Strange Happens When You Follow Einstein's Math
S2024E09
These Are The Avalanches To Worry About
S2024E10
What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color
S2024E11
Why People Prefer More Pain
S2024E12
The Real Reason Robots Shouldn't Look Like Humans
S2024E13
These Illusions Fool Almost Everyone
S2024E14
Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible
S2024E15
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Planes
S2024E16
Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System
S2024E17
How do QR codes work? (I built one myself to find out)
S2024E18
Seeing Inside a Thermite Reaction
S2024E19
We Might Find Alien Life In 2333 Days
S2024E20
This Single Rule Underpins All of Physics
S2024E21
On These Questions, Smarter People Do Worse
S2024E22
The Quest To Make Unbreakable Glass
S2024E23
What Actually Happened To Amelia Earhart?
S2024E24
You're Probably Wrong About Rainbows
S2024E25
12,419 Days Of Strandbeest Evolution
S2024E26
This Musical Instrument Took Eons To Make
S2024E27
The Man Who Went From Doing Drugs To Saving Millions
S2025E01
Why Don't Railroads Need Expansion Joints?
S2025E02
Why Are Scientists Making Robot Insects?
S2025E03
Why Super Glue Is Perfect For Gluing Skin
S2025E04
What if you just keep zooming in?
S2025E05
The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done
S2025E06
The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong
S2025E07
Something Strange Happens When You Trust Quantum Mechanics
S2025E08
What Happened to the Mars Helicopter?
S2025E09
The Man Who Almost Broke Math (And Himself...)
S2025E10
The Biggest Misconception In Physics
S2025E11
The Most Dangerous Building in Manhattan
S2025E12
How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet
S2025E13
The Biggest Misconception in Football (ft. Tom Brady)
S2025E14
The Obviously True Theorem No One Can Prove
S2025E15
This mechanism shrinks when pulled
S2025E16
The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
S2025E17
The Perfect Battery Material Is Dangerous
S2025E18
This is the natural disaster to worry about
S2025E19
Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
S2025E20
The Most Dangerous Escalator in Rome
S2025E21
This liquid explodes when shaken
S2025E22
Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are
S2025E23
The Most Controversial Idea in Biology
S2025E24
The Most Dangerous Cognitive Bias
S2025E25
Why don't jet engines melt?
S2025E26
You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong
S2025E27
Something Weird Happens When E=-mc²
S2025E28
The Most Controversial Experiment in Quantum Physics