Summaries of Veritasium Videos 📚

These Pools Help Support Half The People On Earth

How Does EUV Lithography Work in Chip Making?

Single Photon Interference

How Is Funnel-Web Spider Venom Used to Create Anti-Venom?

What Challenges Did Shūji Nakamura Overcome to Create the Blue LED?

What Is Longyearbyen, the Northernmost Town on Earth?

What Is the Dzhanibekov Effect and How Does It Work?

Can You Keep Zooming In Infinitely?

What Are Power Laws and Their Impact?

What Is the Collatz Conjecture and Why Is It So Unsolved?

Why Trees Are Taller Than They Need To Be

Where Do Trees Get Their Mass From?

Why Did Scientists Believe Nuclear Energy Was Impossible?

We Might Find Alien Life In 1847 Days

World's Longest Straw: How Long Can a Straw Actually Be?

Future Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing)

The Biggest Misconception in Football (ft. Tom Brady)

What Are the Moral Dilemmas of Self-Driving Cars?

How Do Different Types of Night Vision Goggles Work?

World's First Car!

Transit of Venus! Sydney 2012 Contacts, Contracts and Parallax

Musical Fire Table!

What Is the Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math?

What Are the Most Radioactive Places on Earth?

The Future of Veritasium

Turbulent Flow is MORE Awesome Than Laminar Flow

How Does the Hilbert Hotel Illustrate Different Sizes of Infinity?

What Is the Trillion Dollar Equation in Finance?

Can You Go the Speed of Light?

What Are the Missing Baryons in the Universe?

Why Do Two Wood Blocks Shot Differently Reach the Same Height?

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Planes

Why Is Boredom Important for Our Well-being?

I Asked Bill Gates What's The Next Crisis?

What Are the Effects of a Supernova Near Earth?

How Does the Principle of Least Action Work?

What Does Game Theory Teach Us About Cooperation?

What Are Rods from God and Why Are They Impractical?

Make Plasma With Grapes In The Microwave!

How to Launch a Nuclear Missile Safely and Quickly

Epic Slow-Mo Drum Implosions!

How We’re Fooled By Statistics

Fire in ZERO-G!!

Why Does a Spinning Wheel Feel Lighter When Lifted?

Sandwich Bag Fire Starter

How a Student's Question Saved This NYC Skyscraper

What Happens If You Keep Slowing Down?

How Did Leaded Gasoline Impact Public Health?

Why Super Glue Is Perfect For Gluing Skin

What Is the Difference Between Mass and Weight?

How a Single Hack Nearly Crippled the Internet

What Is the Navy's Indoor Ocean and How Is It Used?

Why Can't Farmers Replant Their Own Seeds?

What Are the Risks of Autonomous Weapons in Warfare?

This Particle Breaks Time Symmetry

Why Don’t Railroads Need Expansion Joints?

4 Revolutionary Riddles

What Are the Two Systems of Thinking in Our Brains?

How Kodak Exposed Nuclear Testing

What Does Thomas Young's Double Slit Experiment Prove About Light?

What Is the Sleeping Beauty Problem in Philosophy?

What Is the Most Controversial Idea in Evolution?

How Does Quantum Mechanics Influence Particle Paths?

What Are Penrose Patterns and Their Significance?

Is Success More About Luck or Hard Work?

How Is Nitinol Revolutionizing NASA's Space Tires?

How Does a 33-Year E. coli Experiment Show Evolution?

What Is the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?

Neutron Star Merger Gravitational Waves and Gamma Rays

What it’s like to watch a Total Solar Eclipse

How to Overcome Learned Helplessness in Life

How Does Electromagnetic Levitation Work in Quadcopters?

The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets

Why Isn't Energy Conserved in Expanding Universe?

The Obviously True Theorem No One Can Prove

What Is Audio Video Sync and Why Is It Important?

Why Does Access to Facts Increase Fake News and Polarization?

Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought

On These Math Problems, Smarter People Do Worse

The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves

What Is Snatoms and How Does It Teach Chemistry?

Does Water Swirl the Other Way in the Southern Hemisphere?

I Took an IQ Test to Find Out What it Actually Measures

Why Is Clickbait So Effective on YouTube?

The Science of Six Degrees of Separation

Why Do Anecdotes Often Override Statistical Data?

Drinking in ZERO-G! (and other challenges of a trip to Mars)

How Did Scientists Predict a Supernova in SP1149?

How Did Misplaced Satellites Test General Relativity?

Are You Lightest In The Morning?

What Is Gravity If It’s Not a Force?

The Terrifying Real Science Of Avalanches

How to Solve Google's Blender Interview Question

Is Our Food Losing Nutritional Value Over Time?

What Impact Did Fritz Haber Have on Agriculture and Warfare?

Why Does Metal Feel Colder Than Wood If They're Same Temp?

What Is the Real Mechanism of Electricity Transmission?

I Rented A Helicopter To Settle A Physics Debate

Why People Prefer More Pain

Is America Actually Metric?

Misconceptions About Heat

Getting Buried In Concrete To Explain How It Works

The Real Story of Oppenheimer

How to Color Plastic Using Only Holes

How AlphaFold Revolutionizes Protein Structure Prediction

How Did Derek from Veritasium Transition from Engineer to Filmmaker?

Imploding Drum

How Markov Chains Predict Events and Trends

Schlieren Imaging in Color!

What Is the Aharonov-Bohm Effect?

How a Shark Attack Survivor Invented Cage Diving

What Now For The Higgs Boson?

Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos

What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color

Why Were Early Computers Made From Light Bulbs?

What Is the Ames Window Illusion and How Does It Work?

What Are the Risks of Over-Hyping Science Discoveries?

The Perfect Battery Material Is Dangerous

Why Scorpions Glow in the Dark

How To See Air Currents

What Is the Energy Content of Empty Space?

Why Are People Overconfident Despite Being Wrong?

The Most Important Material Ever Made

Why Do Viral Videos Succeed on YouTube?

What Is the Science Behind Fireworks and How Are They Made?

Do Salt Lamps Really Produce Negative Ions?

What Are Micromouse Competitions and How Do They Work?

How Does a Spinning Sphere of Molten Sodium Model Earth's Magnetic Field?

What Is the Axiom of Choice in Math?

Is Glass a Liquid?

Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up as We Age?

These are the asteroids to worry about

Why Are Snowflakes Unique in Their Shapes?

Why Is MIT Making Robot Insects?

The Man Who Accidentally Discovered Antimatter

Do Learning Styles Really Improve Education Outcomes?

What Did Euclid's Fifth Postulate Reveal About Geometry?

Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail

Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now

What They (Probably) Don't Teach You About Rainbows At School

Why Future Robots Won't Look Like Humans

Can you really reach anyone in 6 steps?

How to Slow Aging (and even reverse it)

How to Hold Your Breath Longer: Techniques Revealed

Why Was the Celsius Temperature Scale Upside Down?

Is Democracy Mathematically Possible?

How Has Technology Changed Bowling Techniques?

Can a Penny Dropped From a Skyscraper Kill You?

How Vast Is the Universe and Do We Understand Its Scale?

Why Do People Frequently Choose the Number 37?

How Did Isaac Newton Revolutionize Pi Calculation?

What Is Synchronization and Why Is It Important?

What Is Dark Matter and Why Is It Hard to Detect?

Chaos: The Science of the Butterfly Effect

These Illusions Fool Almost Everyone

Best Film on Newton's Third Law. Ever.

Should Airships Make a Comeback?

How Do Jet Engines Survive Extreme Heat?

How LSD Led to the Discovery of PCR

What Does the Harvard Study Reveal About Happiness?

This is why we can't have nice things

What Can We See in Ultraviolet Light?

What Are the Common Myths About Climate Change?

How Does Microwaving Grapes Create Plasma?

Where Does The Sun Get Its Energy?

Why Do Escalator Steps Have Teeth?

How Japanese Masters Turn Sand Into Swords

The Universe is Hostile to Computers

What Is the Non-Sticky Gecko-Inspired Adhesive?

What Is Counter-Snapping and How Does It Work?

NEW Gravitational Wave Discovery!

Why Do Metals Weld Together in Space Without Heat?

What Are Compliant Mechanisms and Why Are They Better?

I built a QR code with my bare hands to see how it works

What Is Bayes' Theorem and How Can It Help You?

Why Do Some People Attract More Mosquitoes Than Others?

What Is the Largest Rainfall Simulator in the World?

Why The Universe Expands Faster Than Light

Five Firsts for Mars InSight

How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work

What Is the History of the Fahrenheit Temperature Scale?

What Is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Its Impact?

What Is Quantum Entanglement and Its Implications?

How PFAS Chemicals Contaminate Our Planet

What Percentage of Household Dust Is Dead Skin?

Why the Future of Cars is Electric

What Is the Balance Between Order and Randomness in the Universe?

How to Make Liquid Nitrogen at Home

What Is the Illusion of Truth and How Does It Work?

How Can Aerogel Make You Waterproof?

How Does Advanced Visualization Improve Air Flow Detection?

What Is the World's Strongest Magnet and Its Uses?

Why No One Has Measured The Speed Of Light

How Does Line-X Coating Make Objects Indestructible?

What Myths Have Failed to Revolutionise Education?

World's Roundest Object!

Does Planet 9 Really Exist in Our Solar System?

Mathematicians Use Numbers Differently From The Rest of Us

Why Do Shaken Soda, Melting Ice, and a Ring on a Chain Behave So Strangely? 3 Physics Problems Explained

The Science of Jetpacks and Rockets!

People said this experiment was impossible, so I tried it - Thermite Part 1

Why Do Venomous Animals Live In Warm Climates?

What Is the Logistic Map and Its Impact on Nature?

Inside the Svalbard Seed Vault

Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?

How Does a Quantum Computer Work?

34 Years Of Strandbeest Evolution

What Are the Molecular Machines in Your Body?

Engineering with Origami

How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented

What Actually Happened To Amelia Earhart?

Why Is GPS Disrupted Over Europe?

How Close We've Come to Nuclear War

Do Cell Phones Increase Brain Cancer Risk?

What Is the Fast Fourier Transform and Its Importance?

What Are Mathematics' Inherent Limitations and Flaws?

How Does Electricity Flow in a Circuit?

What Are Shade Balls and Why Are They Used in Reservoirs?

Would You Take This Bet?

This is the natural disaster to worry about

Should This Lake Exist?

What Is Entropy and How Does It Affect Time?

The Man Who Fooled The World

Can the Blackbird Car Really Go Faster Than the Wind?

The Surprising Genius of Sewing Machines

How Was Video Technology Invented and Developed?

How Do Trees Defy Gravity to Transport Water?

What Is Poisson's Spot and Where Is It Found?

The 4 things it takes to be an expert

This Is the Oldest, Weirdest Instrument On Earth

How Does a Spinning Flywheel Defy Gravity?

What Is the Most Common Cognitive Bias and How to Avoid It?

How To Measure The Tiniest Forces In The Universe

How Does Electromagnetic Induction Create Levitation?

How Do Non-Newtonian Fluids React to Frequency Changes?

Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System

Can Silence Actually Drive You Crazy?

What Was the SAT Question Everyone Answered Wrong?

Physics Nobel Prize 2011 - Brian Schmidt