The Rest Is Science
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 understand things like time, randomness, or even gravity? Once you start questioning these familiar ideas, reality becomes astonishingly strange and completely fragile. Whether you're a lifelong science fan or just naturally curious, The Rest Is Science will change your perception of reality, and prove that the biggest...
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Episodes (99)
What Happened When We Stopped Squatting?
Oct 21, 2026
Mathematicians Are The Canary Down The AI Coal Mine
Oct 18, 2026
The Right Way To Open A Shaken Soda Can
Oct 14, 2026
Something Weird Is Going On With Placebos
Oct 11, 2026
What Was A Mammoth Doing At The Bottom Of The Sea?
Oct 7, 2026
Why Do We Turn on Innocent People?
Oct 4, 2026
Hacking The Kendama With Physics
Sep 30, 2026
Why Do We Like Staring Into Fire?
Sep 27, 2026
The Fluid Dynamics of Fountain Pens
Sep 23, 2026
Dying In Space, Trapped Water, and What's Hidden In Pi?
Sep 20, 2026
How Codes Were Used To Hack The Telegram Business
Sep 16, 2026
Why Your Body Needs Gravity
Sep 13, 2026
What Is Collagen All About?
Sep 9, 2026
The Threshold of Human Sensation
Sep 6, 2026
The Scale of the Universe
Sep 2, 2026
Why Loud Chewing Makes You Angry
Aug 30, 2026
How Does Language Change What You Smell?
Aug 26, 2026
Space Elevators, Skyhooks, and Space Fountains
Aug 23, 2026
Bizarre Watches and How They Work
Aug 19, 2026
Why Your Brain Thinks You're Full (Even When You're Not)
Aug 16, 2026
The Lake At The North Pole That Stops Europe From Freezing
Aug 12, 2026
The Science of Putting Sunglasses on The Sun
Aug 9, 2026
Why Is It A Colour Wheel & Not A Line?
Aug 5, 2026
Why Lithium Batteries SUCK
Aug 2, 2026
What Happens Inside Earth's Forbidden Zones?
Jul 29, 2026
The 2012 Maya Apocalypse Myth & Confirmation Bias
Jul 26, 2026
The Evolution of Colour Vision & Tetrachromacy
Jul 22, 2026
The Hole In Your Brain That Makes You Doomscroll
Jul 19, 2026
Forensic Science And The Champawat Tiger
Jul 15, 2026
All The People You Don't Know
Jul 12, 2026
An Honest Dad Ranking (Out Of All 2 Billion)
Jul 8, 2026
Your Brain Invents Pain. Here's Why.
Jul 5, 2026
The Most Dangerous Rock In Hannah's Collection
Jul 1, 2026
The Audio Illusion That Proves We Don't Experience Reality
Jun 28, 2026
The Engineering Of A NASA Space Pen
Jun 24, 2026
A Paleontology Of The Future: What We Will Leave Behind
Jun 21, 2026
What Are The Odds You'll Become A Fossil?
Jun 17, 2026
Why Feet Are Weirder Than You Think
Jun 14, 2026
How Many Words Do You ACTUALLY Know?
Jun 10, 2026
Why You Should Stop Using Face ID
Jun 7, 2026
Nikola Tesla Fell In Love with a Pigeon
Jun 3, 2026
Michael Discovered A New Way To Make Twins
May 31, 2026
Why Michael Abandoned Ink For Mechanical Pencils
May 27, 2026
Do Our Bodies Really Belong To Us?
May 24, 2026
Hannah Predicted a Pandemic
May 20, 2026
DARK vs LIGHT
May 17, 2026
Polymetalic Nodules Are Weird
May 13, 2026
"A Grim Enemy For Reasons We Do Not Yet Comprehend"
May 11, 2026
When 0 = 1000
May 6, 2026
How To Use a Black Hole To See Your Past
May 4, 2026