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Why doesn't your heart get tired like other muscles do?

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No device could prove Einstein wrong... until now

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Is there something faster than light?

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When you lose weight where does it go?

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The Insane Engineering of Fiber Optics

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What is edge dislocation?

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How Dangerous Are Non-Stick Pans?

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We're trying something new...

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What happens to these balloons when you open the valve?

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The Insane Real Engineering of the Nazi Enigma Machine

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Heating A Ball Just By Squeezing It

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The Scariest Chart In Engineering

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The Most Dangerous Escalator In Europe

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A Physics Professor Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong...

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We Took $10,000 From @mkbhd's Locked iPhone

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It's impossible to choose a number at random

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Could identical twins commit the perfect crime?

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We sent a camera to space to film the solar eclipse

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How do submarines know where they are?

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Is spider web really stronger than steel?

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The World's Heaviest Weight

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Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life?

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The Most Controversial Thought Experiment In Physics

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Why Waves Travel Faster At The Top

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The Scariest Chart in Electrical Engineering

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The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong

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How does light 'know' the shortest path?

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AD - Why are plants colder than their surroundings?

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AD - Why do I get this spark when I unplug my hair dryer?

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Why do these metronomes sync up?

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We've Been Using The Wrong Science In Court For 50 years

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This tiny magnetic blob could change how we treat brain tumors forever...

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We're 99.9% sure this pattern is true, but no one can prove it

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Zippers are stronger than you think...

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How A Random System Can Actually Be Predictable

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AD - How do cities control traffic? We partnered with Anker to find out…

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Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found

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Google Maps is unreasonably fast. Let me explain

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How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room

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Can you solve the hat riddle?

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How many batteries would it take to power a human?

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How Alpha Particles Can Break Computer Chips

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The Surprising Genius Of Sewing Machines

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The CIA's new tech doesn't make sense

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The Crystal That Could Destroy All Medicine

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Wombats Poop Cubes

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Why don't trains make that sound anymore?

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The Most Radioactive Place On Earth

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How easy is it to steal $10,000 from a locked phone?

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Can something go faster than it’s pushed?

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What happens if you drop 0.125 grams of antimatter?

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The Bizarre Behaviour Of Rotating Bodies

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The Secret Spy Tech Inside Every Credit Card

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How Pressure Can Come From Nothing

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Making A Giant Zipper To Explain How They Work

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The Shadow Illusion

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This Paradox Splits Smart People 50/50

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You Can't Feel Wet

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The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew

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The Crazy Physics of Jet Engines

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The asbestos problem is worse than we thought

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Rubber used to be useless…

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World’s Largest Spiderweb

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Why Cold Drinks Were Deadly Before 1914

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The Tiny Donut That Proved We Still Don't Understand Magnetism

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How They Prevented The Citicorp Disaster

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What Happens If You Keep Slowing Down?

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What happens if you cut the green rope?

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You're Only 6 Steps Away From Anyone On Earth

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The World's Most Important Machine

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The Future of Veritasium

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There Is Something Faster Than Light

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What is this strange pattern down the east coast of America?

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Understanding The Most Beautiful Equation In Physics

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I Turned My Phone Into A Microscope

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You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong

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How Strong Is Super Glue?

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The Ridiculous Engineering of Jet Engines

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Why People Are So Confident When They're Wrong

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Seeing Inside A Thermite Reaction

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The Most Controversial Idea in Biology

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Why didn't this skateboard stunt start from the top?

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How To Solve a Quadratic Equation

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How To See Atoms

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Renting A Helicopter To Settle A Physics Debate

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Can you really reach anyone in 6 steps?

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The Nobel prize has a dark history...

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How to solve any maze

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What Happens When You Spin a Football?

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Why Do Escalator Steps Have Teeth?

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Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds

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How aerogel can make the ocean drinkable

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This is the natural disaster to worry about

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Can you swim in shade balls?

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Testing the US Military’s worst idea

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The Perfect Battery Material Is Dangerous

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The blue LED was almost impossible to make

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The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything

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Why do all animals jump to about the same height?

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Why did light bulb lifetimes get shorter?