Veritasium

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  • : 2010
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2019
2019x1
Spinning Black Holes
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11, 2019
A pulsing black hole in the centre of a distant galaxy sheds light on black hole and galaxy formation. How fast are black holes rotating and how does that rotation change over its life-span?
2019x2
The Inverse Leidenfrost Effect
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25, 2019
Droplets levitate on a bath of liquid nitrogen and are spontaneously self-propelled.
2019x3
Do Salt Lamps Work
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06, 2019
Do negative air ions improve mood, anxiety, depression, alertness?
2019x4
Microwaving Grapes Makes Plasma
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18, 2019
A bisected grape in the microwave makes plasma. But how does it work? A grape is the right size and refractive index to trap microwaves inside it. When you place two (or two halves) .. show full overview
2019x5
Can You Recover Sound From Images?
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01, 2019
Is it possible to reconstruct sound from high-speed video images?
2019x6
Why Machines That Bend Are Better
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12, 2019
Compliant mechanisms have lots of advantages over traditional devices. SimpliSafe is awesome security. It's really effective, easy to use, and the price is great.
2019x7
Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?
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18, 2019
Research has found human brains can pick up on rotations of geomagnetic-strength fields as evidenced by drops in alpha wave power following stimulus.
2019x8
How Was Video Invented
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29, 2019
I always wanted to know why film looked better than video. Moving electronic images have as long a history but were invented for a different purpose.
2019x9
How to Understand the Black Hole Image
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09, 2019
We are about to see the first image of a black hole, the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. But what is that image really showing us?
2019x10
First Image of a Black Hole!
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10, 2019
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black holes at the center of M87 and our Milky Way galaxy (SgrA*) finding the dark central shadow in accordance with .. show full overview
2019x11
Three Awesome High School Science Projects
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19, 2019
The story of three impressive high school science projects. Can you guess which student won $250,000 in the #RegeneronSTS?
2019x12
Magnetic Micro-Robots
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25, 2019
Tiny robots activated by magnetic fields may be used in future biomedical procedures.
2019x13
Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?
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10, 2019
I took a boat through 96 million black plastic balls on the Los Angeles reservoir to find out why they're there. The first time I heard about shade balls the claim was they reduce .. show full overview
2019x14
My Video Went Viral. Here's Why
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19, 2019
My hypothesis is that the algorithm, rather than viewer preference, drives views on the site. As the algorithm shifts, various YouTubers experience burnout (as what used to work no .. show full overview
2019x15
World's Lightest Solid!
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31, 2019
Aerogels are the world's lightest (least dense) solids. They are also excellent thermal insulators and have been used in numerous Mars missions and the Stardust comet particle-return .. show full overview
2019x16
Can You Swim in Shade Balls?
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13, 2019
I bought 10,000 shade balls and tried to swim in them. They appear to act like a non-Newtonian fluid: rigid under high shear stress, but they flow like a liquid under low shear.
2019x17
I Waterproofed Myself With Aerogel!
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21, 2019
Aerogel has extraordinary properties but it can be tough to work with. This video looks at modifying aerogels to take advantage of their unique characteristics.
2019x18
How Cod Saved the Vikings
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07, 2019
The Vikings suffered many hardships living in the north of Europe: long, cold winters and importantly a lack of sunlight. Luckily, they had cod.
2019x19
Why Apollo Astronauts Trained in Nuclear Bomb Craters
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19, 2019
Apollo astronauts trained in nuclear bomb craters at the Nevada National Security Site. But why?
2019x20
Why the Future of Cars is Electric
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02, 2019
Electric cars are now ready to take over thanks to advances in battery technology and their inherent benefits: torque, handling, maintenance.
2019x21
Mars Helicopter (before it went to Mars)
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10, 2019
The Mars Helicopter aims to make the first powered flight on another planet when it takes off on Mars as part of the Mars 2020 mission. I learned a lot getting to visit the drone right before it was mounted on the rover.
2019x22
Making Liquid Nitrogen From Scratch!
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16, 2019
I used a nitrogen membrane and Stirling cryocooler to liquefy nitrogen out of the air.
2019x23
Flamethrower vs Aerogel
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31, 2019
We put aerogel to the test vs 'not-a-flamethrower', a huge 2000°C flame to a large fiberglass blanket infused with silica aerogel - formerly the lightest solid (that title is now held by graphene aerogel).
2019x24
Does Planet 9 Exist?
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13, 2019
A planet has been predicted to orbit the sun with a period of 10,000 years, a mass 5x that of Earth on a highly elliptical and inclined orbit. What evidence supports the existence of such a strange object at the edge of our solar system?
2019x25
The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies, Explained
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19, 2019
Spinning objects have strange instabilities known as The Dzhanibekov Effect or Tennis Racket Theorem - this video offers an intuitive explanation.
2019x26
Engineering with Origami
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04, 2019
On first glance it's surprising that origami -- a centuries old art of folding paper to achieve particular aesthetics -- is applicable to engineering. But upon closer consideration there .. show full overview
2019x27
Why Trees Are Out to Get You
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25, 2019
Huge thanks to all the YouTubers who organized this. My apologies for the repost. These videos are from 2012 so my interest in trees goes back a long ways. I think these videos discuss .. show full overview
2019x28
3 Perplexing Physics Problems
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20, 2019
Why does shaken soda explode? Does ice melt first in fresh or salt water?
2019x29
Chaos - The Science of the Butterfly Effect
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06, 2019
Chaos theory means deterministic systems can be unpredictable.
2019x30
How to Slow Aging (and even reverse it)
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14, 2019
Scientists like Prof Sinclair have evidence of speeding up, slowing, and even reversing aging.
2019x31
Why New Years Resolutions Fail & How To Succeed
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28, 2019
Common pitfalls of New Year's resolutions and how I plan to avoid them.

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