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Title: Why do these metronomes sync up?
Runtime: 1:13
Date posted: 2 days ago
Description: Watch what happens when you start a metronome ticking on an unstable platform, out of sync with two others.

Slowly over time, they all sync up.

How does this happen?

We've Been Using The Wrong Science In Court For 50 years

Title: We've Been Using The Wrong Science In Court For 50 years
Runtime: 23:22
Date posted: 6 days ago
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This tiny magnetic blob could change how we treat brain tumors forever...

Title: This tiny magnetic blob could change how we treat brain tumors forever...
Runtime: 0:42
Date posted: 10 days ago
Description: Scientists have developed a new way to provide treatment for brain tumours.

Currently we use chemotherapy, but that's like throwing a grenade at a mosquito, you end up damaging a lot more than you mean to.

This magnetic blob will help change that.

References:
Microrobots: https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-3054/full
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03754-6
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/11/19/robot-drugs-side-effects-magnets/

Catheters: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/scirobotics.adh0298

Telesurgery: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ado3187
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/scirobotics.adq0192

Electromagnetic Navigation Systems: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202310701

Magnetic Levitation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT8129liuQc

We're 99.9% sure this pattern is true, but no one can prove it

Title: We're 99.9% sure this pattern is true, but no one can prove it
Runtime: 41:30
Date posted: 14 days ago
Description: Do twin primes go on forever? Sponsored by Brilliant - Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to try Brilliant’s tutor for free, plus receive 20% off an annual Premium subscription

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A huge thank you to Alex Kontorovich, Andrew Granville, James Maynard, Roger Heath-Brown, Dimitris Koukoulopoulos, Debmalya Basak & George Shakan for their invaluable expertise and contributions to this video!

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0:00 What are twin primes?
3:08 How To Find Prime Numbers
6:11 The Sieve of Eratosthenes
11:26 The Closest We’ve Come To Proving Twin Primes
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Title: Zippers are stronger than you think...
Runtime: 1:05
Date posted: 16 days ago
Description: How do zippers work?

We made a giant one to find out!

How A Random System Can Actually Be Predictable

Title: How A Random System Can Actually Be Predictable
Runtime: 1:50
Date posted: 20 days ago
Description: The balls in a Galton board fall down randomly. Any time they come to a junction they can take any number of paths and it's almost impossible to accurately predict every ball's trajectory.

However, the system as a whole is predictable.

How can this be? How can random systems actually be predictable?

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Title: AD - How do cities control traffic? We partnered with Anker to find out…
Runtime: 1:19
Date posted: 23 days ago
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Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found

Title: Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found
Runtime: 34:17
Date posted: 23 days ago
Description: Something is disrupting GPS signals across Europe. Sponsored by Ground News. Go to https://ground.news/Ve for 40% off the unlimited Vantage plan.

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0:00 What is jamming Europe’s GPS?
4:43 How does GPS work?
10:46 How easy is it to jam GPS?
12:18 The Hunt To Find The Jammer
17:12 Who are the possible culprits?
20:06 The Investigation Goes Public

Google Maps is unreasonably fast. Let me explain

Title: Google Maps is unreasonably fast. Let me explain
Runtime: 29:54
Date posted: 29 days ago
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For those curious about the path-count estimate: we estimated the non-backtracking paths NYC→SF, using a sparse spatial network model with mean degree ≈ 2.5 and characteristic length ≈ √N.

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0:00 What is a ‘shortest path algorithm’?
3:30 Dijkstra’s 20 Minute Algorithm
6:30 The First Route Planner
10:31 A* Search Algorithm
12:40 Shortest Doesn’t Mean Fastest
15:08 Road Network Hierarchy
18:29 Mapping North America - Nested Dissection
25:17 How do ...

Title: How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room
Runtime: 2:40
Date posted: 1 month ago
Description: If there's a hotel with infinite rooms, could it ever be completely full?

Could you run out of space to put everyone?

The surprising answer is yes -- this is important to know if you're the manager of the Hilbert Hotel.

Title: Can you solve the hat riddle?
Runtime: 1:14
Date posted: 1 month ago
Description: You and 3 amigos are buried neck deep in sand in a prison yard.

The guard says if one of you can guess your own hat colour you can all go free. You know there are two black hats and two white hats and you can only see the hats of the people in front of you.

A minute passes in silence and then one of you shouts out a correct answer.

Who shouted?

A, B, C or D?

How many batteries would it take to power a human?

Title: How many batteries would it take to power a human?
Runtime: 1:45
Date posted: 1 month ago
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How Alpha Particles Can Break Computer Chips

Title: How Alpha Particles Can Break Computer Chips
Runtime: 2:07
Date posted: 1 month ago
Description: In the 1970s, Intel couldn't work out what was damaging the DRAM on their microchips.

The cause turned out to be the ceramic that the chip was encased in. It was secretly flipping 1s to 0s.

But how?

The Surprising Genius Of Sewing Machines

Title: The Surprising Genius Of Sewing Machines
Runtime: 1:13
Date posted: 2 months ago
Description: How does a sewing machine work?

The answer is more genius than you might think.

Title: The CIA's new tech doesn't make sense
Runtime: 21:18
Date posted: 2 months ago
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A huge thanks to Patrick Maletinsky at the University of Basel and Jan Jeske at the Fraunhofer Institute for their insights into NV magnetometry.

Likewise, thank you to Brad Roth at Oakland University, John Wikswo at Vanderbilt University, and Bob Fagaly at the IEEE for their input on the history and constraints of magnetometry.

Thank you to Douglas London, CIA Senior Operations Officer (Rtd), for his input on the story. His book, The Recruiter, can be found here - https://ve42.co/Recruiter

A big thanks to Herbert ...

The Crystal That Could Destroy All Medicine

Title: The Crystal That Could Destroy All Medicine
Runtime: 33:25
Date posted: 2 months ago
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Check out the excellent video by Reactions here: https://youtu.be/PccOwGEbtQU?si=NOpmaulDcoq6Kif-

This video was a huge collaborative effort!

Special thanks to�...

Title: Wombats Poop Cubes
Runtime: 0:46
Date posted: 2 months ago
Description: Wombat feces are surprisingly... cube shaped.

They are the only known animal to produce this kind of poop leading scientists to work out this strange phenomenon.

Why don't trains make *that* sound anymore?

Title: Why don't trains make *that* sound anymore?
Runtime: 1:03
Date posted: 2 months ago
Description: If you've been on a modern train you won't have noticed that classic "clickety-clack" sound anymore. This is because train tracks are now one continuous piece of rail without gaps.

But one long piece of metal without room to expand when hot is dangerous.

Thus, engineers had to come up with an ingenious solution involving... jagged rocks?

Title: The Most Radioactive Place On Earth
Runtime: 1:33
Date posted: 2 months ago
Description: Where comes to mind when you think of radioactivity?

Chernobyl? Hiroshima? A banana?

The most radioactive place isn't actually where you think...

How easy is it to steal $10,000 from a locked phone?

Title: How easy is it to steal $10,000 from a locked phone?
Runtime: 25:44
Date posted: 2 months ago
Description: How we hacked MKBHD! Sponsored by Incogni - Use code veritasium at https://incogni.com/veritasium to get an exclusive 60% off.

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0:00 Stealing $10,000 From MKBHD
4:04 How The Hack Works
8:29 High Value vs Low Value Transactions
10:18 Tricking The Card Reader
14:20 Transit Mode
15:22 Why does this hack only work with Visa?
17:10 How does RSA encryption work?
20:13 How can you prevent this hack?
21:59 What are Visa doing about it?

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A huge thank you to professors Ioana Boureanu from the University of Surrey and Tom Chothia from the University of Birmingham, for supporting us with the execution and the explanation of th...

Can something go faster than it’s pushed?

Title: Can something go faster than it’s pushed?
Runtime: 1:02
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: A UCLA Physics Professor bet Derek $10,000 that his video about going downwind faster than the wind was wrong.

Here's a demonstration you can do at home to see why something can move faster than the force pushing it.

What happens if you drop 0.125 grams of antimatter?

Title: What happens if you drop 0.125 grams of antimatter?
Runtime: 58:54
Date posted: 3 months ago
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0:00 The Problem Of Antimatter Storage
2:18 What is particle annihilation?
6:13 The Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry
12:44 CPT Symmetry
16:28 The Wu Experiment
22:13 The Antimatter...

The Bizarre Behaviour Of Rotating Bodies

Title: The Bizarre Behaviour Of Rotating Bodies
Runtime: 1:33
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: What you are looking at is known as the Dzhanibekov effect or the tennis racket theorem or the intermediate axis theorem.

It involves arguably the best mathematician alive, Soviet era secrets, and the end of the world.

So in 1985, cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov was tasked with saving the Soviet space station Salyut 7 which had completely shut down. The mission was so dramatic that the Russians made a movie out of it in 2017 and after rescuing the space station, Dzhanibekov unpacked supplies sent up from Earth which were locked down with a wing-nut and as the wing-nut spun off the bolt, he noticed something strange:

The wing-nut maintained its orientation for a short time, and then it flipped, 180 degrees. And as he kept watching, it flipped back a few seconds later and it continued flipping back and forth at regular intervals.

This motion wasn’t caused by forces or torques applied to the wing-nut: there were none. And yet it kept fl...

The Secret Spy Tech Inside Every Credit Card

Title: The Secret Spy Tech Inside Every Credit Card
Runtime: 28:43
Date posted: 3 months ago
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0:00 Dissolving A Card In Acetone
1:32 The Soviets’ Powerless Bug
6:24 The First Credit Card
8:21 Magnetic Stripe Credit Cards
11:51 How To Clone A Credit Card
13:50 Chip and Pin
18:03 Operation Easy Chair
19:58 How does a contactless card work?
23:39 Digital Pickpocketing

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We’d love to thank some of the experts who helpe...

Title: How Pressure Can Come From *Nothing*
Runtime: 1:15
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: If you went to the emptiest part of the universe and took 2 uncharged objects with you, something really strange happens...

They snap together almost by magic!

This is called the Casimir Effect and the explanation is still an ongoing debate in physics!

Making A Giant Zipper To Explain How They Work

Title: Making A Giant Zipper To Explain How They Work
Runtime: 20:45
Date posted: 3 months ago
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A huge thank you to Emily Zhang for her advice on how to best structure this story. Check out her new channel here: @rabbithole

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Title: The Shadow Illusion
Runtime: 0:58
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Cut any shape hole into a piece of cardboard and hold it up to the sunlight.

When sunlight shines through this hole, it casts a circular image on the wall regardless of the shape of the hole.

Why does this happen?

The size of the hole also doesn't affect the size of the image.

This counterintuitive demonstration shows that the hole is acting like a pinhole camera, producing an image of the sun on the wall. Therefore the size and shape of the hole have no effect on the size and shape of the image.

Title: This Paradox Splits Smart People 50/50
Runtime: 25:40
Date posted: 4 months ago
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A huge thank you to Dr. Arif Ahmed, Dr. Adam Elga, Dr. Kenny Easwaran, Dr. Peter Slezak, D...

Title: You Can't Feel Wet
Runtime: 0:54
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Put on a glove and dip your hand into icy water. You'll notice it still feels wet?

But the glove is waterproof, how does this work?

That's because wet isn't a feeling, we use other sensory information to feel water...

The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew

Title: The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew
Runtime: 53:00
Date posted: 4 months ago
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0:00 The Free Software Foundation
5:03 Why is Linux so popular?
9:57 The XZ Weakness
12:07 End To End Encryption - SSH
18:40 How To Compress Data
23:47 How The .XZ Hack Worked
34:24 A Bug In Jia’s Code
38:27 Henry Hacks Derek
43:16 The Back Door Is Exposed
47:16 Who is Jia Tan?
50:33 Open Vs Closed Source

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A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible:

Rich Jones fo...

Title: The Crazy Physics of Jet Engines
Runtime: 2:55
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: This is one of the most powerful jet engines in the world, and it runs at temperatures more than 250 degrees celsius hotter than the melting point of the materials that make it up.

So why doesn't it melt?

The asbestos problem is worse than we thought

Title: The asbestos problem is worse than we thought
Runtime: 54:46
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: How asbestos ended up everywhere, and why we’re still using it today. Sponsored by Ground News - Go to https://ground.news/Ve for 40% off the unlimited Vantage plan, to catch how major public health stories are covered across the political spectrum and spot media bias for yourself.

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0:00 A Weavable Rock
9:41 The Asbestos Boom
13:06 What Does Asbestos Do To Humans?
16:57 The Doctor Who Exposed Asbestos
21:59 The Asbestosis Cover-Up...

Title: Rubber used to be useless…
Runtime: 1:38
Date posted: 5 months ago
Description: The strange natural material that reshaped the world.

Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/AFXLZ7FEJc4?si=OaiAz42CzKGSPOYh

Written by Sulli Yost and @casper_mebius

Produced and Directed by Sulli Yost

Hosted by Derek Muller and @henry.vandyck

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Title: World’s Largest Spiderweb
Runtime: 1:20
Date posted: 5 months ago
Description: This is the world's largest spiderweb.

Entirely underground, it's home to an entire ecosystem.

But how does it work?

Title: Why Cold Drinks Were Deadly Before 1914
Runtime: 30:17
Date posted: 5 months ago
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A huge thank you to Amy Brady and Tom Jackson for their invaluable expertise and contri...

The Tiny Donut That Proved We Still Don't Understand Magnetism

Title: The Tiny Donut That Proved We Still Don't Understand Magnetism
Runtime: 35:53
Date posted: 5 months ago
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Chapters:
0:00 The 3 Body Problem
4:16 Potential Energies
7:09 What is the curl in mathematics?
11:59 Bohm and Oppenheimer
14:36 Potentials in the Schrödinger Equation
18:40 The Aharonov-Bohm Effect
25:...

How They Prevented The Citicorp Disaster

Title: How They Prevented The Citicorp Disaster
Runtime: 1:29
Date posted: 5 months ago
Description: The Citicorp centre once had a 67% chance of falling over!

Repairs were beyond necessary but William LeMessurier and his team had to construct supports secretly at night so as not to cause panic.

Title: What Happens If You Keep Slowing Down?
Runtime: 30:09
Date posted: 5 months ago
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0:00 How does a strobe work?
3:28 The Man Who Stopped Time
8:43 Spatial vs Temporal Resolution
13:09 1 Trillion FPS
16:56 Watching Light Move
19:04 The Straightest Building in...

Title: What happens if you cut the green rope?
Runtime: 1:07
Date posted: 5 months ago
Description: The problem seems simple but the answer isn't...

How an unlikely physics paradox controls these counterintuitive structures.

You're Only 6 Steps Away From Anyone On Earth

Title: You're Only 6 Steps Away From Anyone On Earth
Runtime: 1:14
Date posted: 6 months ago
Description: The small world problem.

How can we be connected in 6 steps if most of us spend our lives in small clusters?

Title: The World's Most Important Machine
Runtime: 55:00
Date posted: 6 months ago
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0:00 The Machine That Saved Moore’s Law
3:12 How are microchips made?
...

Title: The Future of Veritasium
Runtime: 17:35
Date posted: 6 months ago
Description: Am I retiring?

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Title: There Is Something Faster Than Light
Runtime: 44:16
Date posted: 6 months ago
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What is this strange pattern down the east coast of America?

Title: What is this strange pattern down the east coast of America?
Runtime: 2:04
Date posted: 7 months ago
Description: There is this strange pattern of bodies of water all down the east coast of America and most of them point northwest.

They're called Carolina Bays as they're found predominantly in the Carolina states, and they're home to some crazy wildlife.

But how did they form?

Weird Things Happen When Energy Goes Negative

Title: Weird Things Happen When Energy Goes Negative
Runtime: 35:23
Date posted: 7 months ago
Description: How Paul Dirac uncovered the anti-universe. Sponsored by Hostinger - visit https://ve42.co/hostinger and use the code VERITASIUM to get an extra discount on top of the sale prices.

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A huge thank you to Graham Farmelo and Cumrun Vafa for their invaluable expertise and contributions to this video.

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A special thanks to Matteo Arfini for his help with this video.

Check out Graham Far...

Title: I Turned My Phone Into A Microscope
Runtime: 1:42
Date posted: 7 months ago
Description: #Sponsored @madebygoogle A single drop of water is all it takes to turn the new Google #Pixel10Pro into a makeshift microscope.

Promotional code offer expires 12/05/2025 at 11:59p.m. PT; while supplies last. Must be redeemed on Google Store only. User must be signed-in to their Google Account and checkout with Google Pay profile, including a valid form of payment. Limit 1 per customer.Available only to US residents, aged 18 years or older, with US shipping addresses. Google Pay profile must be registered in the US and promotional code can only be used in the US.To redeem, visit store.google.com, add the desired item to the cart, then enter promotional code during checkout for an instant discount on your purchase on one of four eligible items: Pixel 10 (unlocked), Pixel 10 Pro (unlocked), Pixel 10 Pro XL (unlocked), Pixel 10 Pro Fold (unlocked). Promotional code is for one-time use only with no residual balance; is not transferable; and is not valid for cash or cash equival...

You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong

Title: You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong
Runtime: 45:13
Date posted: 7 months ago
Description: The world is not Normal. Sponsored by NordVPN. 🌏 Get exclusive NordVPN deal here ➵ https://NordVPN.com/veritasium It’s risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee!✌

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To play around with the simulations in the video, you can follow these links:
Sandpiles - https://www.veritasium.com/simulation3
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Forest fires - https://www.veritasium.com/simulation5

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A huge thanks to Steven Strogatz, Mark Buchanan and Mark Newman for their time and expertise.

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Title: How Strong Is Super Glue?
Runtime: 0:44
Date posted: 7 months ago
Description: Why does superglue always stick to your hands and never what you want it to?

And how strong is it really?

The Ridiculous Engineering of Jet Engines

Title: The Ridiculous Engineering of Jet Engines
Runtime: 39:34
Date posted: 7 months ago
Description: How does a jet engine not melt? Sponsored by KiwiCo - Use code VERITASIUM to get 50% off your first monthly KiwiCo Crate! https://www.kiwico.com/VERITASIUM
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0:00 How a jet engine works
3:18 Why are jet engines so big?
5:17 The Inside of a Jet Engine
8:49 Edge Dislocati...

Why People Are So Confident When They're Wrong

Title: Why People Are So Confident When They're Wrong
Runtime: 24:02
Date posted: 8 months ago
Description: The problem with overconfidence. To help correct your overconfidence we have a tabletop game launching. Pledge your support now on kickstarter! - https://ve42.co/ocdsc

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 The Most Dangerous Cognitive Bias
3:01 How confident are you that you are right?
7:40 Why are people overconfident?
8:53 The Real Dunning-Kruger Effect Graph
10:22 How Your Brain Takes Shortcuts
14:02 How overconfidence is good for you
15:55 Nick Leeson Rogue Trader
17:17 The Importance of Feedback
18:45 How One of England's Oldest Banks Collapsed
20:41 How To Correct Overconfidence

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A big thanks to Professor Moore and Prof...

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