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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 between what we think we know, and what we actually know. Why do we assume we…

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The Rest Is Science

The Fluid Dynamics of Fountain Pens

Dying In Space, Trapped Water, and What's Hidden In Pi?

How Codes Were Used To Hack The Telegram Business

Why Your Body Needs Gravity

What Is Collagen All About?

The Threshold of Human Sensation

The Scale of the Universe

Why Loud Chewing Makes You Angry

How Does Language Change What You Smell?

Space Elevators, Skyhooks, and Space Fountains

Bizarre Watches and How They Work

Why Your Brain Thinks You're Full (Even When You're Not)

The Lake At The North Pole That Stops Europe From Freezing

The Science of Putting Sunglasses on The Sun

Why Is It A Colour Wheel & Not A Line?

Why Lithium Batteries SUCK

What Happens Inside Earth's Forbidden Zones?

It Wasn't A Hoax After All

The Evolution of Colour Vision & Tetrachromacy

The Hole In Your Brain That Makes You Doomscroll

Forensic Science And The Champawat Tiger

All The People You Don't Know

An Honest Dad Ranking (Out Of All 2 Billion)

Your Brain Invents Pain. Here's Why.

The Most Dangerous Rock In Hannah's Collection

The Audio Illusion That Proves We Don't Experience Reality

The Engineering Of A NASA Space Pen

A Paleontology Of The Future: What We Will Leave Behind

What Are The Odds You'll Become A Fossil?

Why Feet Are Weirder Than You Think

How Many Words Do You ACTUALLY Know?

Why You Should Stop Using Face ID

Nikola Tesla Fell In Love with a Pigeon

Michael Discovered A New Way To Make Twins

Why Michael Abandoned Ink For Mechanical Pencils

Do Our Bodies Really Belong To Us?

Hannah Predicted a Pandemic

DARK vs LIGHT

Polymetalic Nodules Are Weird

"A Grim Enemy For Reasons We Do Not Yet Comprehend"

When 0 = 1000

How To Use a Black Hole To See Your Past

The Science Of Motion Sickness

Alan Turing’s Final Theory Was About Leopards

How To Prove You're A Time Traveller

The Reasoning Test Psychologists Still Can't Explain

The Elegant Laminar Flow Of Moroccan Tea

The Physics Of Thermodynamics

Are There More Raindrops In Clouds Or Data In THE Cloud?

Data & The Universe (Understanding Infinity Part 3)

Why We Need Zip Lines On The Moon

Multiple Infinities (Understanding Infinity Part 2)

How Evolution Is Shaping Cancer Research

Mathematical Paradoxes (Understanding Infinity Part 1)

Michael's Favourite Science Books

The Science of Hallucinations and Perception

Introducing: The Book Club - Never Let Me Go

Why We Cry Out In Pain

What's The Most "Vegetable" Vegetable?

How Words Shape Your Body

The Neuroscience and Purpose of Sleep

Aerospace Engineering: How To Fall To Earth (Without Burning Up)

You (Don't) Know Where You Are

How Big Is A Piece Of Chocolate?

There Are Four Ways To Lie

The Evolution Of The Butthole

(Finite) Numbers So Large They'd Destroy You

Michael Wrote Some Math Poetry

Can We 'Solve' Sports?

This Glass Was Made By Lightning

Can You Die Of Boredom?

Would You Kill One To Save Five? Your Brain Already Decided

Searching For Meaning In Randomness

Why Erdős Was The Original Kevin Bacon

Smells Humans Are Ridiculously Good At Detecting

Could Sound Make You Levitate?

Are Magnets The Most Familiar Mystery On Earth?

Probability, Statistics, and the Math of Dice

The History of Calendars and Keeping Time