The disaster I never imagined having to worry about

From Veritasium. The crystals that wiped out an HIV medication, almost overnight. Thanks to SoFi for sponsoring the video! Click here to sign-up for SoFi Checking and Savings: https://sofi.com/ve If you’re looking for a molecular modelling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where the atoms snap together magnetically – https://ve42.co/SnatomsV Sign up for the…

How A Miracle Drug Disappeared Overnight

From Veritasium. The crystals that wiped out an HIV medication, almost overnight. Thanks to SoFi for sponsoring the video! Click here to sign-up for SoFi Checking and Savings: https://sofi.com/ve If you’re looking for a molecular modelling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where the atoms snap together magnetically – https://ve42.co/SnatomsV Sign up for the…

The trick to blowing the perfect dandelion

From Science Magazine. If you’ve ever run out of breath before a dandelion runs out of fluff, don’t blame your lungs. Research from last year shows that depending on the wind’s direction, the force required to free a seed can vary by more than a factor of 100. The umbrellalike tufts resist downward tugs, but…

Geology Created Madagascar’s Weird Animals

From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. The island of Madagascar is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. But is isn’t just because it’s isolated. All that diversity also stems from its unique geological past, including…

Five Researchers Who Tried To Save Their Own Lives

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Researchers Who Had No Choice But To Study Themselves

From SciShow. Go to https://80000hours.org/scishow, or click in the description or pinned comment to pre-order your copy of their updated career guide. Learn what makes a high-impact career, get new ideas for impactful paths, make a new plan based on what you’ve learned, and put it into action. Patient-scientists, me-searchers, or just researchers who study…

We Have Spent Millions of Dollars on Blue Roses

From SciShow. We all know that roses are red and violets are blue. But how come you never see blue roses, too? Turns out, there’s been over forty years of research into breeding genetically blue roses, and the results are…. a bit disappointing. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon…

Wombats Poop Cubes

From Veritasium. Wombat feces are surprisingly… cube shaped. They are the only known animal to produce this kind of poop leading scientists to work out this strange phenomenon.

Existential Questions to Keep You Up at Night | Through the Wormhole | Science Channel

From Science Channel. For centuries, humanity has wrestled with the universe’s deepest mysteries. Now, modern science confronts the biggest questions ever asked from what came before time to hidden dimensions, black holes, life after death, and whether we are here for a reason. #ScienceChannel #MorganFreeman Stream Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman: https://www.discoveryplus.com/gb/show/through-the-wormhole-with-morgan-freeman About Through…

Why don’t trains make *that* sound anymore?

From Veritasium. If you’ve been on a modern train you won’t have noticed that classic "clickety-clack" sound anymore. This is because train tracks are now one continuous piece of rail without gaps. But one long piece of metal without room to expand when hot is dangerous. Thus, engineers had to come up with an ingenious…

Fish are harder, better, faster, stronger together

From Science Magazine. Much like other creatures, sulphur mollies band together to protect themselves from predators. But is there really strength in numbers? Learn more: https://scim.ag/42vE1qd CREDITS: (VIDEO) PACHER ET AL./SCIENCE ADVANCES; DORAN ET AL./CURRENT BIOLOGY; (IMAGES) PACHER ET AL./SCIENCE ADVANCES; HUGO TORRES/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS; RHODODENDRITES/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS; (GRAPHIC) PACHER ET AL./SCIENCE ADVANCES; (SCRIPT/NARRATION) J. GALVAN/SCIENCE; (EDITING)…

7 Times Invasive Species Actually Helped

From SciShow. Get 20% off DeleteMe by going to https://joindeleteme.com/SCISHOW and use code SCISHOW to protect your privacy! Invasive species have a bad reputation for disrupting delicate ecosystems and generally causing mayhem. And it’s a reputation they’ve rightfully earned! But every once in a while a new species has moved to town and actually kinda…

The Day the Dinosaurs Died

From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. We all know the story. Dinosaurs were roaming the earth, happy as could be, and then our planet met a big asteroid. Thus ended the dinosaurs. But that fast forwards through…

Why No One Can Agree About This Map

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How Physicists Can Create Better Surfing Waves

From SciShow. Some beaches are known for being legendary surf spots. They get their status thanks to bathymetry and the physics of waves. And recently a team of physicists used math to decode the secret formula behind those gnarly waves. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow…

The Physics of a Perfect Wave

From SciShow. Some beaches are known for being legendary surf spots. They get their status thanks to bathymetry and the physics of waves. And recently a team of physicists used math to decode the secret formula behind those gnarly waves. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow…

What’s In Those Gas Station Drugs?

From SciShow. Kratom, tianeptine, phenibut, synthetic THC, and tadalafil may seem harmless since you can buy them at your local gas station. But sometimes the consequences are deadly. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list…

The largest map of the universe ever created

From Science Magazine. Astronomers have completed the largest 3D map of the universe ever made. Science Senior Correspondent Dan Clery explains how. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3OqlyIt CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) DESI COLLABORATION AND DESI MEMBER INSTITUTIONS/DOE/KPNO/NOIRLAB/NSF/AURA/R. PROCTOR; (IMAGE PROCESSING) M. ZAMANI (NSF NOIRLAB); MARILYN CHUNG/LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY; DESI COLLABORATION/DOE/KPNO/NOIRLAB/NSF/AURA/FISKE PLANETARIUM; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE #Astronomy #Science #ScienceShorts

Watch an earthquake split a hillside in two

From Science Magazine. First-of-its-kind footage from the devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar in March 2025 shows a hillside cracking in two, its pieces sliding past one another like a conveyor belt. The rupture was captured coincidentally on a driveway CCTV camera. Geologists at Kyoto University quickly realized the footage was actually the world’s first…