# SciShow: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-11-05, SciShow has 8,420,000 subscribers, 2,278,742,725 total views, and 4,245 videos. It ranks #3,994 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [SciShow](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for SciShow is “Why Is There No Vitamin F?”, a long-form video published Nov 4, 2026.
- These are SciShow’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Aug 24, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 254,205. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Scientists Can't Agree On The First Ancient City” (2,595,154 views, Sep 17, 2026). Least viewed: “Why Is There No Vitamin F?” (74,448 views, Nov 4, 2026).
- Median length: 11:31 for 48 long-form videos.
- In this sample, SciShow’s consecutive uploads were a median of 1 day apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 4 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 5, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Why Is There No Vitamin F?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/i7esSCr2UJk/) | 2026-11-04 | Long-form | 74,448 | 15:11 | 2.11x |
| [What Was the First Alcohol?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/M6nefnNpOZA/) | 2026-11-03 | Long-form | 139,345 | 14:41 | 1.01x |
| [This Rock Was Supposed to Be from Space](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/G25Vd8hpLJI/) | 2026-11-02 | Long-form | 126,297 | 10:57 | 0.82x |
| [5 Maps That Changed History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/3bc9r8zk36s/) | 2026-10-30 | Long-form | 159,763 | 13:28 | 0.77x |
| [Two Different Things Are Killing Sharks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/LiAAayT_v84/) | 2026-10-29 | Long-form | 258,473 | 7:44 | 1.04x |
| [AI Psychosis Is Killing People. It’s Time to Talk About It](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/1nVwqDL3XCI/) | 2026-10-28 | Long-form | 855,537 | 17:05 | 2.79x |
| [How To Hold Something That's 10,000,000 Degrees](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/dfA_VA20A2Y/) | 2026-10-27 | Long-form | 244,278 | 15:02 | 0.87x |
| [How Many Times Can You Clone Your Clone?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/SfRqo_trkNo/) | 2026-10-26 | Long-form | 178,862 | 10:34 | 0.52x |
| [The Plane Crash That Gave Us Cataract Surgery](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/cqDZt0BOlBI/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 184,850 | 8:22 | 0.52x |
| [Why Can't Every Shot Be a Pill?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/ua29hkUXwg4/) | 2026-10-22 | Long-form | 161,086 | 8:41 | - |
| [Why Weed Doesn't Work on Everyone](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/p7Tb0GNawdM/) | 2026-10-21 | Long-form | 632,816 | 8:53 | 1.37x |
| [How the Black Market Saved Thousands of Cats](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/rk0O1xcuXQ4/) | 2026-10-20 | Long-form | 206,692 | 14:00 | 0.51x |
| [How the Color Mauve Saved Millions of Lives](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/16-xQ-Dt2mk/) | 2026-10-19 | Long-form | 505,284 | 11:11 | 1.23x |
| [5 Unexplored Mysteries of the Deep Sea](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/OWhZvY6GEK8/) | 2026-10-16 | Long-form | 392,550 | 15:57 | 1.06x |
| [Why Doesn't Gold Tarnish?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/09Zd9k-szWw/) | 2026-10-15 | Long-form | 638,740 | 8:39 | 1.62x |
| [Scientists Are Getting Close to Creating a Universal Vaccine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/yndh85o_jvc/) | 2026-10-14 | Long-form | 333,993 | 9:07 | 0.84x |
| [The Bizarre Case of the Tully Monster](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/gLkYRU2fOos/) | 2026-10-13 | Long-form | 565,355 | 12:42 | 1.42x |
| [The Cure for Ulcers Is ... Cabbage](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/wxfARKaQyDE/) | 2026-10-12 | Long-form | 338,127 | 8:29 | 0.98x |
| [The Science That Finally Explains the Dyatlov Pass Incident](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/9yYQHUTv9t4/) | 2026-10-09 | Long-form | 1,577,570 | 44:57 | 3.87x |
| [5 of Science's Weirdest Paradoxes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/rhHj8-dpXx8/) | 2026-10-07 | Long-form | 464,055 | 12:52 | 1.47x |
| [What the Power Pose Controversy Reveals About Science](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/rd_kVzsqRAc/) | 2026-10-06 | Long-form | 221,431 | 12:00 | 0.81x |
| [How to Make a Whole City Invisible](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/Nmtr13laur0/) | 2026-10-05 | Long-form | 210,296 | 13:18 | 0.66x |
| [This Green Beach Shouldn't Exist](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/_6ronpDQY2o/) | 2026-10-02 | Long-form | 357,806 | 8:51 | 0.83x |
| [Ancient Octopuses Were MUCH Bigger Than We Thought](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/JpR3oeTlzos/) | 2026-10-01 | Long-form | 762,854 | 12:03 | 1.48x |
| [A Planetarium Accidentally Discovered Something in the Oort Cloud](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/q7AM3ViYckA/) | 2026-09-30 | Long-form | 554,423 | 11:31 | 1.4x |
| [The Con Man Who Invented Anesthesia](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/YHuet6imDWI/) | 2026-09-29 | Long-form | 280,918 | 10:47 | 1.03x |
| [When A Shipwreck Comes Back To Life](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/a--SDorutyw/) | 2026-09-28 | Long-form | 156,226 | 11:42 | 0.61x |
| [Hank Green Asks a Volcanologist Anything](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/Fbxn6OBOkg4/) | 2026-09-25 | Long-form | 519,199 | 34:14 | 2.02x |
| [Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Anteaters?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/qpc6pWnqNxk/) | 2026-09-24 | Long-form | 264,147 | 11:33 | 1.03x |
| [The Best Knife, According to Science](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/ayERZsp3IsQ/) | 2026-09-23 | Long-form | 222,814 | 9:26 | 0.93x |
| [What Does Ketamine Actually Do?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/NSlTyM3tEHc/) | 2026-09-22 | Long-form | 509,427 | 9:20 | 1.53x |
| [You're Washing Your Dishes Wrong](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/pzTyAqobXRI/) | 2026-09-21 | Long-form | 602,454 | 8:40 | 2.52x |
| [Scientists Can't Agree On The First Ancient City](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/kBTa41cK4wM/) | 2026-09-17 | Long-form | 2,595,154 | 25:17 | 12.2x |
| [Why Everything Weighs Less in Antarctica](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/iL7f2bkcv1Q/) | 2026-09-16 | Long-form | 194,565 | 11:16 | 0.92x |
| [Why Only 1% of All Possible Flights Are Direct](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/PtcQaVbjyIM/) | 2026-09-15 | Long-form | 249,936 | 11:10 | 1.18x |
| [What Is a Good Gut Microbiome, Anyway?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/gB6OvhT_KYs/) | 2026-09-14 | Long-form | 228,138 | 11:58 | 1.07x |
| [How To Survive Being Eaten](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/_k5XP8X-3_o/) | 2026-09-10 | Long-form | 156,746 | 9:49 | 0.81x |
| [Why the Perfect Red Is Impossible to Make](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/Ixn3GSVnPcM/) | 2026-09-09 | Long-form | 417,414 | 12:57 | 2.16x |
| [The Stinky Fish Sauce Ancient Romans Couldn’t Live Without](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/LLNaEJZx_uU/) | 2026-09-08 | Long-form | 184,089 | 13:54 | 0.98x |
| [Why Don’t We Use Mothballs Anymore?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/nZMyQBVBVqs/) | 2026-09-07 | Long-form | 1,750,371 | 11:21 | 9.04x |
| [4 Things We Can Learn From Explosions](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/AzTJx-XBXGg/) | 2026-09-03 | Long-form | 189,931 | 11:13 | 1.1x |
| [What’s Ruining Our Ruins?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/mlft34vjImg/) | 2026-09-02 | Long-form | 197,388 | 11:31 | 1.12x |
| [These Rocks Are Older Than the Sun](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/l0OVj6BfqgI/) | 2026-09-01 | Long-form | 385,975 | 12:48 | 2.07x |
| [Why You Should Get Your DNA Sequenced After You Die](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/uSfJXecof4M/) | 2026-08-31 | Long-form | 149,393 | 9:05 | 0.98x |
| [Those Ancient Giant Fungi Weren’t Fungi After All](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/7gFgl9ijlDg/) | 2026-08-27 | Long-form | 1,021,219 | 14:02 | 7.67x |
| [What's Really Living in the Subway](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/YXh8FUD2f9o/) | 2026-08-26 | Long-form | 99,659 | 10:45 | - |
| [6 Ways Animals Pee Weird](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/8Kt6p_GQt_w/) | 2026-08-25 | Long-form | 111,424 | 12:02 | 0.6x |
| [Do Penguins Control the Weather?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@scishow/videos/hy-IbuXXUYk/) | 2026-08-24 | Long-form | 76,552 | 7:07 | - |

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