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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?