Veritasium

An element of truth - videos about science, education, and anything else we find interesting.

Curated by: Veritasium (517 videos)

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How do zippers work? We made a giant one to find out!

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• AD - Why are plants colder than their surroundings?
• AD - Why do I get this spark when I unplug my hair dryer?
• Why do these metronomes sync up?
• We've Been Using The Wrong Science In Court For 50 years
• This tiny magnetic blob could change how we treat brain tumors forever...
• We're 99.9% sure this pattern is true, but no one can prove it
• Zippers are stronger than you think...
• How A Random System Can Actually Be Predictable
• AD - How do cities control traffic? We partnered with Anker to find out…
• Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found
• Google Maps is unreasonably fast. Let me explain
• How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room
• Can you solve the hat riddle?
• How many batteries would it take to power a human?
• How Alpha Particles Can Break Computer Chips
• The Surprising Genius Of Sewing Machines
• The CIA's new tech doesn't make sense
• The Crystal That Could Destroy All Medicine
• Wombats Poop Cubes
• Why don't trains make *that* sound anymore?
• The Most Radioactive Place On Earth
• How easy is it to steal $10,000 from a locked phone?
• Can something go faster than it’s pushed?
• What happens if you drop 0.125 grams of antimatter?
• The Bizarre Behaviour Of Rotating Bodies
• The Secret Spy Tech Inside Every Credit Card
• How Pressure Can Come From *Nothing*
• Making A Giant Zipper To Explain How They Work
• The Shadow Illusion
• This Paradox Splits Smart People 50/50
• You Can't Feel Wet
• The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew
• The Crazy Physics of Jet Engines
• The asbestos problem is worse than we thought
• Rubber used to be useless…
• World’s Largest Spiderweb
• Why Cold Drinks Were Deadly Before 1914
• The Tiny Donut That Proved We Still Don't Understand Magnetism
• How They Prevented The Citicorp Disaster
• What Happens If You Keep Slowing Down?
• What happens if you cut the green rope?
• You're Only 6 Steps Away From Anyone On Earth
• The World's Most Important Machine
• The Future of Veritasium
• There Is Something Faster Than Light
• What is this strange pattern down the east coast of America?
• Weird Things Happen When Energy Goes Negative
• I Turned My Phone Into A Microscope
• You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong
• How Strong Is Super Glue?
• The Ridiculous Engineering of Jet Engines
• Why People Are So Confident When They're Wrong
• Seeing Inside A Thermite Reaction
• The Most Controversial Idea in Biology
• Why didn't this skateboard stunt start from the top?
• How To Solve a Quadratic Equation
• How To See Atoms
• Renting A Helicopter To Settle A Physics Debate
• Can you really reach anyone in 6 steps?
• The Man Who Fooled The World
• How to solve any maze
• What Happens When You Spin a Football?
• Why Do Escalator Steps Have Teeth?
• Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
• How aerogel can make the ocean drinkable
• This is the natural disaster to worry about
• Can you swim in shade balls?
• Testing the US Military’s worst idea
• The Perfect Battery Material Is Dangerous
• The blue LED was almost impossible to make
• The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
• Why do all animals jump to about the same height?
• Why did light bulb lifetimes get shorter?
• This mechanism shrinks when pulled
• There are 96 million black balls on this lake
• The Obviously True Theorem No One Can Prove
• The Biggest Misconception in Football (ft. Tom Brady)
• Why do planes fly so high?
• How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet
• How a Student's Question Saved This NYC Skyscraper
• Why we put spiders on soccer balls
• The Biggest Misconception in Physics
• Can you solve this SAT question?
• The Most Controversial Idea In Math
• Can you solve the prisoner's riddle?
• How this helicopter survived 1004 days on Mars, then disappeared...
• Something Strange Happens When You Trust Quantum Mechanics
• The Blender Question Everyone Gets Wrong
• This Is The Perfect Bowling Strategy
• AlphaFold - The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done
• Can You Keep Zooming In Infinitely?
• Why Super Glue Is Perfect For Gluing Skin
• Why Is MIT Making Robot Insects?
• Why Don’t Railroads Need Expansion Joints?
• The Man Who Took LSD and Changed The World
• This Is the Oldest, Weirdest Instrument On Earth
• Explaining Pi With Pizza
• 34 Years Of Strandbeest Evolution
• What They (Probably) Don't Teach You About Rainbows At School
• How Dishwashers Actually Work