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The Rest Is Science

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Join mathematician Professor Hannah Fry and science creator Michael Stevens (Vsauce) as they dig into the weird scientific questions that often go unexplored. Welcome to The Rest Is Science, a show that sits in the fascinating space…

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What Happened When We Stopped Squatting? 2026-10-21 · 38m
Mathematicians Are The Canary Down The AI Coal Mine 2026-10-18 · 67m
The Right Way To Open A Shaken Soda Can 2026-10-14 · 38m
Something Weird Is Going On With Placebos 2026-10-11 · 50m
What Was A Mammoth Doing At The Bottom Of The Sea? 2026-10-07 · 42m
Why Do We Turn on Innocent People? 2026-10-04 · 51m
Hacking The Kendama With Physics 2026-09-30 · 41m
Why Do We Like Staring Into Fire? 2026-09-27 · 59m
The Fluid Dynamics of Fountain Pens 2026-09-23 · 65m
Dying In Space, Trapped Water, and What's Hidden In Pi? 2026-09-20 · 49m
How Codes Were Used To Hack The Telegram Business 2026-09-16 · 57m
Why Your Body Needs Gravity 2026-09-13 · 43m
What Is Collagen All About? 2026-09-09 · 42m
The Threshold of Human Sensation 2026-09-06 · 55m
The Scale of the Universe 2026-09-02 · 49m
Why Loud Chewing Makes You Angry 2026-08-30 · 50m
How Does Language Change What You Smell? 2026-08-26 · 46m
Space Elevators, Skyhooks, and Space Fountains 2026-08-23 · 66m
Bizarre Watches and How They Work 2026-08-19 · 54m
Why Your Brain Thinks You're Full (Even When You're Not) 2026-08-16 · 47m
The Lake At The North Pole That Stops Europe From Freezing 2026-08-12 · 47m
The Science of Putting Sunglasses on The Sun 2026-08-09 · 60m
Why Is It A Colour Wheel & Not A Line? 2026-08-05 · 47m
Why Lithium Batteries SUCK 2026-08-02 · 54m
What Happens Inside Earth's Forbidden Zones? 2026-07-29 · 46m
The 2012 Maya Apocalypse Myth & Confirmation Bias 2026-07-26 · 60m
The Evolution of Colour Vision & Tetrachromacy 2026-07-22 · 46m
The Hole In Your Brain That Makes You Doomscroll 2026-07-19 · 49m
Forensic Science And The Champawat Tiger 2026-07-15 · 41m
All The People You Don't Know 2026-07-12 · 56m
An Honest Dad Ranking (Out Of All 2 Billion) 2026-07-08 · 42m
Your Brain Invents Pain. Here's Why. 2026-07-05 · 51m
The Most Dangerous Rock In Hannah's Collection 2026-07-01 · 56m
The Audio Illusion That Proves We Don't Experience Reality 2026-06-28 · 58m
The Engineering Of A NASA Space Pen 2026-06-24 · 48m
A Paleontology Of The Future: What We Will Leave Behind 2026-06-21 · 55m
What Are The Odds You'll Become A Fossil? 2026-06-17 · 39m
Why Feet Are Weirder Than You Think 2026-06-14 · 46m
How Many Words Do You ACTUALLY Know? 2026-06-10 · 52m
Why You Should Stop Using Face ID 2026-06-07 · 44m
Nikola Tesla Fell In Love with a Pigeon 2026-06-03 · 36m
Michael Discovered A New Way To Make Twins 2026-05-31 · 48m
Why Michael Abandoned Ink For Mechanical Pencils 2026-05-27 · 47m
Do Our Bodies Really Belong To Us? 2026-05-24 · 51m
Hannah Predicted a Pandemic 2026-05-20 · 63m
DARK vs LIGHT 2026-05-17 · 55m
Polymetalic Nodules Are Weird 2026-05-13 · 32m
"A Grim Enemy For Reasons We Do Not Yet Comprehend" 2026-05-11 · 44m
When 0 = 1000 2026-05-06 · 39m
How To Use a Black Hole To See Your Past 2026-05-04 · 52m
The Science Of Motion Sickness 2026-04-29 · 50m
Alan Turing’s Final Theory Was About Leopards 2026-04-27 · 61m
How To Prove You're A Time Traveller 2026-04-22 · 50m
The Reasoning Test Psychologists Still Can't Explain 2026-04-20 · 62m
The Elegant Laminar Flow Of Moroccan Tea 2026-04-15 · 41m
The Physics Of Thermodynamics 2026-04-13 · 46m
Are There More Raindrops In Clouds Or Data In THE Cloud? 2026-04-08 · 47m
Data & The Universe (Understanding Infinity Part 3) 2026-04-06 · 51m
Why We Need Zip Lines On The Moon 2026-04-01 · 57m
Multiple Infinities (Understanding Infinity Part 2) 2026-03-30 · 49m
How Evolution Is Shaping Cancer Research 2026-03-26 · 57m
Mathematical Paradoxes (Understanding Infinity Part 1) 2026-03-24 · 60m
Michael's Favourite Science Books 2026-03-19 · 53m
The Science of Hallucinations and Perception 2026-03-17 · 70m
Introducing: The Book Club - Never Let Me Go 2026-03-14 · 27m
Why We Cry Out In Pain 2026-03-12 · 55m
What's The Most "Vegetable" Vegetable? 2026-03-10 · 51m
How Words Shape Your Body 2026-03-05 · 50m
The Neuroscience and Purpose of Sleep 2026-03-03 · 61m
Aerospace Engineering: How To Fall To Earth (Without Burning Up) 2026-02-26 · 44m
You (Don't) Know Where You Are 2026-02-24 · 63m
How Big Is A Piece Of Chocolate? 2026-02-19 · 63m
There Are Four Ways To Lie 2026-02-17 · 54m
The Evolution Of The Butthole 2026-02-12 · 49m
(Finite) Numbers So Large They'd Destroy You 2026-02-10 · 58m
Michael Wrote Some Math Poetry 2026-02-05 · 45m
Can We 'Solve' Sports? 2026-02-03 · 62m
This Glass Was Made By Lightning 2026-01-29 · 32m
Can You Die Of Boredom? 2026-01-27 · 48m
Would You Kill One To Save Five? Your Brain Already Decided 2026-01-22 · 43m
Searching For Meaning In Randomness 2026-01-20 · 46m
Why Erdős Was The Original Kevin Bacon 2026-01-15 · 36m
Smells Humans Are Ridiculously Good At Detecting 2026-01-13 · 41m
Could Sound Make You Levitate? 2026-01-08 · 34m
Are Magnets The Most Familiar Mystery On Earth? 2026-01-06 · 44m
Probability, Statistics, and the Math of Dice 2026-01-01 · 38m
The History of Calendars and Keeping Time 2025-12-30 · 48m
The Smell Of Christmas Is Tree Screams 2025-12-25 · 36m
The Reality of Being Santa 2025-12-23 · 36m
The Device That Maps The Heavens 2025-12-18 · 26m
Are You REALLY Made Of Stars? 2025-12-16 · 36m
The Magic Math Trick That Fools Everyone 2025-12-11 · 39m
Is Music Getting Worse? 2025-12-09 · 45m
The Letter That Changed Mathematics 2025-12-04 · 35m
This One's a Tear Jerker 2025-12-02 · 47m
The Arecibo Message and Interstellar Communication 2025-11-27 · 38m
We're All Being Pulled Together 2025-11-25 · 41m
How To Drink Lava 2025-11-25 · 37m
Welcome To The Rest Is Science 2025-11-18 · 2m
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