Veritasium - Season 17 / Year 2025
Season 17 / Year 2025
Episodes
Why Don't Railroads Need Expansion Joints?
How Thermite turned the clickety-clack of railroads into seamless, silent tracks.
Why Are Scientists Making Robot Insects?
What happens when you shrink robots down to the size of insects? Let's explore the mind-bending physics behind their superpowers!
Why Super Glue Is Perfect For Gluing Skin
Why does superglue always stick to your hands and never what you want it to?
What if you just keep zooming in?
Here's what happens when you just keep zooming in.
The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done
The biggest problems in the world might be solved by tiny molecules unlocked using AI.
The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong
Are you smart enough to solve this Google interview question?
Something Strange Happens When You Trust Quantum Mechanics
Does light take all possible paths at the same time?
What Happened to the Mars Helicopter?
Why Did The Mars Helicopter Disappear?
How a helicopter built of phone parts survived Mars for 3 years.
The Man Who Almost Broke Math (And Himself...)
The Biggest Misconception In Physics
The Most Dangerous Building in Manhattan
How a single phone call from a student helped uncover a flaw that nearly toppled Citicorp.
How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet
The biggest chemical cover up in history. PFAS has polluted the entire global water system. Now, potentially dangerous forever chemicals are being found in the entire US population. Go to https://groundnews.com/Ve to get all sides of every story.
The Biggest Misconception in Football (ft. Tom Brady)
Even the GOAT Tom Brady can't throw a perfect spiral. Here's why.
The Obviously True Theorem No One Can Prove
This deceptively simple math problem has stumped mathematicians for almost 300 years!
This mechanism shrinks when pulled
The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
The Perfect Battery Material Is Dangerous
This is the natural disaster to worry about
Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
The Most Dangerous Escalator in Rome
This liquid explodes when shaken
Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are
The Most Controversial Idea in Biology
The Most Dangerous Cognitive Bias
Why don't jet engines melt?
You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong
Something Weird Happens When E=-mc²
The Most Controversial Experiment in Quantum Physics
The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine
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