When scientists talk about turning on and off specific regions of the brain without doing any surgery it sounds like science fiction (and kinda scary). But the reality is it's an incredible new techno...
2018-12-10 19:15:27 +0000 UTC View Post
InSight has landed successfully! Now it can get down to the business of sciencing.
If you want to find out about the five firsts the mission aims to accomplish, check out the video.
2018-11-26 21:29:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I feel like I've been waiting for this moment for six years or so. As of tomorrow (assuming a vote goes to plan) the kg will no longer be the mass of a metal cylinder.
Along with the kg, the kelvin,...
2018-11-15 19:28:17 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video, I worked with my friend Samy Kamkar to understand how garage doors open and how a simple messaging toy could be used to create the same signal and open almost any garage door in seconds...
2018-09-19 21:46:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Ever since I was working on radioactivity I wondered how non-ionizing radiation like UV light could cause cancer and damage to our cells. What I found out is that even though UV is not technically ion...
2018-09-04 16:24:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a companion piece to the Vitamania documentary, looking into the declines observed in nutrients in plant foods and what might be causing it. From the comments, it looks like a controvers...
2018-08-25 19:31:05 +0000 UTC View Post
As you may be aware, I've recently launched a feature-length (90 min) documentary all about the sense and nonsense of vitamins. Not only was I the presenter, I was also an executive producer (for the ...
2018-08-21 15:32:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the delay in posting here, but I am recovering from jet lag having braved the 14 hour flight to Sydney with two kids who are two and under.
This video has been in the works for over a year...
2018-07-23 09:24:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This experiment in Washington DC aims to recreate the conditions in Earth's outer core (to a degree) and attempt to create a self-sustaining magnetic field in the lab.
I also spoke to another scient...
2018-07-14 23:30:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Almost certainly the most personal video I will ever make. I thought about calling it "Video My Life" after the "Draw My Life" craze some years back but I wasn't sure anyone would get it.
Anyway, th...
2018-06-18 16:30:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! So I have been quiet of late when it comes to videos because a lot of other things have been going on... This is why I use patreon on a per video basis, rather than per month so you don't have ...
2018-05-01 01:20:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Most people point to the second law of thermodynamics as the only law of physics that doesn't work the same way forwards and backwards in time. But in this video I explore how a single particle can br...
2017-12-13 13:28:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Way back in 2010, before Veritasium even existed, I attended my first TEDx event in Sydney. There I saw a great talk by a super talented animator, Drew Berry. He had animated the inner workings of our...
2017-11-21 08:10:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The big science news of the day is the detection of a neutron star merger 130 million light years away using gravitational waves and all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is one of the thing...
2017-10-17 05:12:57 +0000 UTC View Post
A few months back I asked for your suggestions of what to put in front of my Schlieren setup. I have now tried a few, even lighting a ping-pong ball on fire. I adjusted the setup so it is now a color ...
2017-10-01 03:54:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This video would not have been possible without you. Literally.
It involved buying solar filters, sky-trackers, a return flight between Boston (where I'm currently shooting a documentary) and Portla...
2017-08-22 00:41:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Scientists have just published their best numbers for Planck's constant and Avogadro's number. The requirement to redefine the kilogram was three measurements with under 50 parts per billion uncertain...
2017-07-12 15:39:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a post on the second channel about my perception of how the YouTube algorithm is changing. It seems to me that it is now prioritizing more frequent, rather than better quality content...
2017-06-29 15:32:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm currently filming in London for Netflix but I found some time to edit this video, which I'm pretty excited about because it includes some beautiful slow-mo and a very cool fluid dynamics effect. I...
2017-06-27 17:42:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the clickbaity title but it's not really bait when the footage is this good. These are some of the most beautiful images I have ever shot of bubbles, matches, lighters, helium... with Schlie...
2017-06-15 13:42:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I teamed up with Grant Thompson who makes an amazing DIY hack channel called the King of Random to see if we could start a fire with a spheroid of water...
2017-06-08 13:14:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I got an early heads up on this one. I went out to interview the scientists yesterday at Caltech to get the scoop on results they just released this morning!
2017-06-01 16:41:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Sure there may be larger things out there but this is the heaviest calibrated weight on Earth, creating a force ten times greater than the most powerful jet engine and a significant fraction of Saturn...
2017-05-24 18:22:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I went to the Jet Propulsion Lab to learn about the Mars 2020 mission to search for evidence of past life on the Red Planet. The first 3:30 are from my field segment for the show Bill Nye Saves the Wo...
2017-05-19 18:12:22 +0000 UTC View Post
A couple weeks ago in Washington DC I got to visit THE American kilogram - that is the object on which all measurements of weight have been based for the last 130 years. And that includes measurements...
2017-05-10 14:49:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been wanting to share this video with you ever since I got off the plane. Being weightless was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had. And I managed to do some experiments with fire and a ...
2017-05-03 15:20:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I have the photic sneeze reflex, which means I sneeze in bright light. Roughly one in four people are like me. In this video I try to figure out what makes it happen and whether it could be evolutiona...
2017-04-28 19:17:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I'm posting the solutions to the riddles from last week. Generally these questions were well answered. The bike question was the trickiest. Did you get all 4 correct?
Oh, and there's no ch...
2017-04-18 15:33:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This video includes a number of puzzles that have been proposed to me over the years including number 4 (Neil deGrasse Tyson) and number 3 (Simon Pampena). Check it out and let me know how many you ge...
2017-04-12 15:45:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn't say it explicitly in the video, but in my view the Bayesian trap is interpreting events that happen repeatedly as events that happen inevitably. They may be inevitable OR they may simply be t...
2017-04-05 15:01:31 +0000 UTC View Post