# The Rest Is Science: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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

As of 2026-10-27, The Rest Is Science has 784,000 subscribers, 215,534,930 total views, and 201 videos. It ranks #95,862 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [The Rest Is Science](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/). 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 The Rest Is Science is “Earth’s Tilt Makes Time Slippery”, a long-form video published Oct 25, 2026.
- These are The Rest Is Science’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Aug 20, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026 (19 long-form videos and 29 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 542,374. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Lugduname is TOO SWEET (and toxic) to eat” (2,048,544 views, Sep 8, 2026). Least viewed: “Why Michael wasn’t allowed to wear black shoes” (124,544 views, Oct 7, 2026).
- Median length: 46:06 for 19 long-form videos; 1:06 for 29 Shorts.
- In this sample, The Rest Is Science’s consecutive uploads were a median of 1 day apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 3 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 27, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Earth’s Tilt Makes Time Slippery](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/uNQewqqghWs/) | 2026-10-25 | Long-form | 238,181 | 49:52 | 0.99x |
| [The History Of Chairs 🪑](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/lbMuY4PGFhg/) | 2026-10-22 | Short | 410,291 | 1:19 | - |
| [What Happened When We Stopped Squatting?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/y63JfVI36_U/) | 2026-10-21 | Long-form | 413,913 | 34:14 | 0.99x |
| [The universal peeing time](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/pbNCYDfz-Qs/) | 2026-10-21 | Short | 482,704 | 0:35 | 1.33x |
| [OpenAI vs Navier-Stokes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/CIcXFS1JJsw/) | 2026-10-20 | Short | 814,687 | 2:25 | 2.61x |
| [Mathematicians Are The Canary Down The AI Coal Mine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/xuHOralyJao/) | 2026-10-18 | Long-form | 946,225 | 1:04:16 | 1.95x |
| [Real medicine can work better if people think it might be a placebo 🤯](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/Y0THqYX_d3k/) | 2026-10-17 | Short | 1,154,766 | 1:09 | 4.1x |
| [You’ve been tapping the wrong part of a shaken can to stop it fizzing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/ovVYSCSIpzw/) | 2026-10-16 | Short | 1,161,511 | 0:34 | 4.4x |
| [The Right Way To Open A Shaken Soda Can](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/OZRc1ydXMiA/) | 2026-10-14 | Long-form | 510,437 | 35:17 | 1.01x |
| [What's a DFA button?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/pZotXSK8BY8/) | 2026-10-14 | Short | 1,227,898 | 0:33 | 4.56x |
| [Something Weird Is Going On With Placebos](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/s8wLP9vjaOg/) | 2026-10-11 | Long-form | 1,338,018 | 46:17 | 2.59x |
| [The science of stank face 🤘](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/Tyrs_o59LOc/) | 2026-10-09 | Short | 248,265 | 0:33 | - |
| [What Was A Mammoth Doing At The Bottom Of The Sea?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/hCXScRVHD14/) | 2026-10-07 | Long-form | 475,158 | 38:50 | 0.89x |
| [Why Michael wasn’t allowed to wear black shoes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/UZjIC-2ReFQ/) | 2026-10-07 | Short | 124,544 | 1:08 | - |
| [Confirmation bias](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/lnHPkst9vhs/) | 2026-10-06 | Short | 200,281 | 0:46 | - |
| [Why Do We Turn On Innocent People?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/4kKd9-vCPts/) | 2026-10-04 | Long-form | 494,186 | 47:14 | 0.87x |
| [Hannah Fry has never been more proud to be British!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/XbS_UYIEv3A/) | 2026-10-02 | Short | 208,615 | 0:35 | - |
| [Hacking The Kendama With Physics](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/0gg7WYhQJkk/) | 2026-09-30 | Long-form | 294,752 | 36:37 | - |
| [Happy birthday fire!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/3wBczwA_dSI/) | 2026-09-29 | Short | 324,570 | 0:42 | - |
| [The Importance Of "Soft Fascination"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/7sJLgNxGWu8/) | 2026-09-27 | Long-form | 1,430,970 | 55:02 | 2.35x |
| [Can CARs help drive cancer out of the body?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/2xMrJbWKUKY/) | 2026-09-25 | Short | 365,031 | 2:10 | - |
| [Male elephant seals have the ultimate pickup line](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/jGWJYnwbF1U/) | 2026-09-25 | Short | 311,877 | 0:27 | - |
| [What does 'chuffed' mean?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/_T8gkurztFg/) | 2026-09-24 | Short | 285,819 | 0:27 | - |
| [Hannah's Favorite Fountain Pens](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/pV6MWmXo_Ss/) | 2026-09-23 | Long-form | 603,153 | 1:01:04 | 0.99x |
| [A Tragic First In Human History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/IhWvOjT3R3s/) | 2026-09-23 | Short | 416,016 | 0:52 | - |
| [Earth Is A Cradle But Not A Grave](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/7R06bDgZLCQ/) | 2026-09-20 | Long-form | 530,208 | 46:06 | 0.88x |
| [The physics of motorway barriers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/wVfgdn7HzbQ/) | 2026-09-18 | Short | 559,517 | 1:16 | - |
| [How People Saved Money On Text Messages In 1900](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/HMwIiH6CSuc/) | 2026-09-16 | Long-form | 616,446 | 52:07 | 1.02x |
| [An introvert’s dream 😂](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/ETlJ-LGMZUg/) | 2026-09-16 | Short | 1,598,212 | 0:57 | 1.56x |
| [Astronauts’ eyeballs change shape in space 🫪](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/yvuOWgrwluQ/) | 2026-09-16 | Short | 505,328 | 1:17 | - |
| [This is what's actually in collagen pills](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/vGLhh43VblU/) | 2026-09-14 | Short | 192,175 | 1:13 | - |
| [NASA Really Did The Twin Experiment](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/9G_kaHscSis/) | 2026-09-13 | Long-form | 954,994 | 34:51 | 1.88x |
| [Wombat poop is cubic](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/MGIsK8-QCkw/) | 2026-09-11 | Short | 459,431 | 1:25 | - |
| [How Cancer Research UK are using allergic reactions to target tumours](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/WRcINF9hb2Y/) | 2026-09-10 | Short | 554,539 | 2:42 | - |
| [What Is Collagen All About?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/pQ7vQ_3oyTM/) | 2026-09-09 | Long-form | 591,141 | 37:52 | 1.46x |
| [Lugduname is TOO SWEET (and toxic) to eat](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/7iRy572JGP8/) | 2026-09-08 | Short | 2,048,544 | 1:08 | 2.21x |
| [The Smallest Thing You Can Feel](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/-a6zw7HFk3Y/) | 2026-09-06 | Long-form | 746,894 | 52:07 | 1.84x |
| [Are we living in a simulation?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/aXerHlW0QJQ/) | 2026-09-03 | Short | 1,841,866 | 1:07 | 2.45x |
| [The Scale Of The Universe](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/9yGdvsASj5c/) | 2026-09-02 | Long-form | 974,840 | 45:32 | 2.41x |
| [What's the smallest thing you can be?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/neBpfR1IswE/) | 2026-09-02 | Short | 1,522,998 | 1:39 | 2.28x |
| [This Episode Will Make You Angry](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/EjN7Bu03Ldc/) | 2026-08-30 | Long-form | 422,596 | 45:57 | 1.04x |
| [Bleach + Human Skin = Soap 🤯🧼](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/PnYssEVsMAY/) | 2026-08-27 | Short | 1,195,207 | 0:46 | 2.03x |
| [Can A Word Make A Smell Exist?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/D2d4wtfr42s/) | 2026-08-26 | Long-form | 387,668 | 42:41 | 0.93x |
| [Building a space elevator](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/x-iWncapuIw/) | 2026-08-26 | Short | 739,486 | 1:06 | 1.26x |
| [The Worst Way To Get To Space](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/qZvmF1Bwwo8/) | 2026-08-23 | Long-form | 689,929 | 1:02:45 | 1.68x |
| [How would you rate Michael's watches?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/sKoxbsvgC2A/) | 2026-08-23 | Short | 1,085,259 | 1:16 | 2.1x |
| [Do some brains interpret maths better than others?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/QUaKxkRCltI/) | 2026-08-22 | Short | 404,380 | 0:44 | - |
| [Self-efficacy and mathematical ability](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@therestisscience/videos/Pr9ACQdPm3M/) | 2026-08-20 | Short | 597,080 | 0:50 | 1.02x |

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