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Currently Playing: The Most Radioactive Place On Earth

Where comes to mind when you think of radioactivity? Chernobyl? Hiroshima? A banana? The most radioactive place isn't actually where you think...

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What happens if I lower this weight into the water?
Why doesn't your heart get tired like other muscles do?
No device could prove Einstein wrong... until now
Is there something faster than light?
When you lose weight where does it go?
The Insane Engineering of Fiber Optics
What is edge dislocation?
How Dangerous Are Non-Stick Pans?
We're trying something new...
What happens to these balloons when you open the valve?
The Insane Real Engineering of the Nazi Enigma Machine
Heating A Ball Just By Squeezing It
The Scariest Chart In Engineering
The Most Dangerous Escalator In Europe
A Physics Professor Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong...
We Took $10,000 From @mkbhd's Locked iPhone
It's impossible to choose a number at random
Could identical twins commit the perfect crime?
We sent a camera to space to film the solar eclipse
How do submarines know where they are?
Is spider web really stronger than steel?
The World's Heaviest Weight
Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life?
The Most Controversial Thought Experiment In Physics
Why Waves Travel Faster At The Top
The Scariest Chart in Electrical Engineering
The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong
How does light 'know' the shortest path?
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*
We Made A Giant Zipper To Explain How It Works
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
What does asbestos do to a person?
Rubber used to be useless…
World’s Largest Spiderweb
Why Cold Drinks Were Deadly Before 1914
Do we know how magnets work yet?
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 Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology
The Future of Veritasium
There Is Something Faster Than Light
What is this strange pattern down the east coast of America?
Why is there antimatter?
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 Nobel prize has a dark history...
How to solve any maze
What Happens When You Spin a Football?
Why Do Escalator Steps Have Teeth?
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?