# Veritasium: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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

As of 2026-11-05, Veritasium has 21,400,000 subscribers, 4,717,989,518 total views, and 547 videos. It ranks #692 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Veritasium](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/). 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 Veritasium is “The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Matter”, a long-form video published Nov 4, 2026.
- These are Veritasium’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Apr 29, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026 (15 long-form videos and 33 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 2,977,532. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “The Insane Real Engineering of the Nazi Enigma Machine” (21,484,248 views, Sep 21, 2026). Least viewed: “How many batteries would it take to power a human?” (392,207 views, May 20, 2026).
- Median length: 34:17 for 15 long-form videos; 1:16 for 33 Shorts.
- In this sample, Veritasium’s consecutive uploads were a median of 4 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 11 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Matter](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/KfODG5REyss/) | 2026-11-04 | Long-form | 1,368,258 | 1:05:56 | 1.65x |
| [These ponds help support half the people on Earth](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/xlNKNnXdtN4/) | 2026-11-02 | Short | 423,648 | 1:53 | - |
| [What happens if I lower this weight into the water?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/zEmabFZvdqA/) | 2026-10-30 | Short | 2,868,822 | 1:14 | 2.14x |
| [Why doesn't your heart get tired like other muscles do?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/Kap7mRzr13w/) | 2026-10-27 | Short | 1,414,933 | 1:13 | 1.02x |
| [No device could prove Einstein wrong... until now](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/eyZEqSPeMwg/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 7,535,134 | 34:28 | 1.64x |
| [Is there something faster than light?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/wxLc-gFORPQ/) | 2026-10-22 | Short | 1,303,471 | 0:58 | 0.86x |
| [When you lose weight where does it go?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/6U6Z6pb6ewI/) | 2026-10-15 | Short | 1,365,337 | 1:10 | 0.86x |
| [Fiber Optics are so much cooler than I thought](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/NiCgcUTL9_Q/) | 2026-10-12 | Long-form | 14,940,008 | 34:32 | 2.96x |
| [What is edge dislocation?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/j9p3Sn8ROL4/) | 2026-10-09 | Short | 4,388,055 | 1:11 | 2.65x |
| [How Dangerous Are Non-Stick Pans?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/IHkp5Kq72ro/) | 2026-10-01 | Short | 1,701,458 | 1:41 | 0.92x |
| [We're trying something new...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/ONAuUyml0yI/) | 2026-09-30 | Long-form | 1,439,101 | 5:08 | 0.21x |
| [What happens to these balloons when you open the valve?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/VKlulHwMxgU/) | 2026-09-24 | Short | 1,644,781 | 1:34 | 0.73x |
| [The Insane Real Engineering of the Nazi Enigma Machine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/JsBZOcqZerk/) | 2026-09-21 | Long-form | 21,484,248 | 47:42 | 3.15x |
| [Heating A Ball Just By Squeezing It](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/hPoJWjJ9Ao8/) | 2026-09-18 | Short | 969,765 | 1:06 | - |
| [The Scariest Chart In Engineering](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/O3a99HNskNk/) | 2026-09-10 | Short | 1,601,474 | 1:11 | 0.58x |
| [The Most Dangerous Escalator In Europe](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/oR94cicO7xM/) | 2026-09-06 | Short | 7,935,188 | 1:17 | 2.31x |
| [A Physics Professor Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/F5_G0AHfYhI/) | 2026-09-02 | Short | 3,086,241 | 1:31 | 0.9x |
| [We Took $10,000 From @mkbhd's Locked iPhone](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/b3KpFdb1pW8/) | 2026-08-26 | Short | 6,241,241 | 0:49 | 2x |
| [It's impossible to choose a number at random](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/5U-V0y-fkSw/) | 2026-08-24 | Short | 1,998,830 | 1:41 | 0.64x |
| [Could identical twins commit the perfect crime?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/nHAFnH3xRl4/) | 2026-08-18 | Short | 950,570 | 1:08 | - |
| [We sent a camera to space to film the solar eclipse](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/J1WoNuemKOg/) | 2026-08-17 | Long-form | 2,796,945 | 22:45 | 0.41x |
| [How do submarines know where they are?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/_1G8nrmBKeY/) | 2026-08-06 | Short | 2,460,398 | 1:31 | 0.65x |
| [Is spider web really stronger than steel?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/wt4p2oalmRY/) | 2026-08-02 | Long-form | 9,913,659 | 26:58 | 1.26x |
| [The World's Heaviest Weight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/3HQkVfZ4DNY/) | 2026-07-30 | Short | 3,746,598 | 1:00 | 0.92x |
| [Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/tL9Lw250spc/) | 2026-07-25 | Long-form | 6,872,297 | 35:32 | 0.87x |
| [The Most Controversial Thought Experiment In Physics](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/2_VB-oc_pmk/) | 2026-07-21 | Short | 1,857,502 | 1:43 | - |
| [Why Waves Travel Faster At The Top](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/RmHcX5oVzvs/) | 2026-07-17 | Short | 6,161,931 | 1:58 | 1.52x |
| [The Scariest Chart in Electrical Engineering](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/GK2pZ_oVU1o/) | 2026-07-14 | Long-form | 6,742,216 | 39:44 | 0.86x |
| [The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/kP7l1agsTzQ/) | 2026-07-13 | Short | 13,107,288 | 1:00 | 3.72x |
| [How does light 'know' the shortest path?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/h1YeIE0vEIs/) | 2026-07-09 | Short | 4,289,963 | 1:16 | 1.61x |
| [AD - Why are plants colder than their surroundings?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/Xhl5TzKZbpw/) | 2026-07-07 | Short | 2,125,413 | 2:40 | 1.22x |
| [AD - Why do I get this spark when I unplug my hair dryer?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/dquI8khH1Zk/) | 2026-06-30 | Short | 3,821,120 | 2:22 | 1.67x |
| [Why do these metronomes sync up?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/uPGBcVCrdg8/) | 2026-06-26 | Short | 1,008,762 | 1:13 | 0.75x |
| [We've Been Using The Wrong Science In Court For 50 years](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/mvcesPWvUIc/) | 2026-06-22 | Long-form | 2,725,843 | 23:22 | 0.29x |
| [This tiny magnetic blob could change how we treat brain tumors forever...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/RxIsjweAAdE/) | 2026-06-18 | Short | 8,665,645 | 0:42 | 6.44x |
| [We're 99.9% sure this pattern is true, but no one can prove it](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/8HBDE-msUjw/) | 2026-06-14 | Long-form | 6,720,309 | 41:30 | 0.7x |
| [Zippers are stronger than you think...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/2_Z7FB3vfFg/) | 2026-06-12 | Short | 4,486,501 | 1:05 | 3.33x |
| [How A Random System Can Actually Be Predictable](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/AUmHqD0lGHo/) | 2026-06-08 | Short | 3,216,307 | 1:50 | 2.39x |
| [AD - How do cities control traffic? We partnered with Anker to find out…](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/b_SZC8oIsBw/) | 2026-06-05 | Short | 1,320,129 | 1:19 | 0.98x |
| [Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/tz23G_UXCGA/) | 2026-06-05 | Long-form | 12,380,464 | 34:17 | 1.26x |
| [Google Maps is unreasonably fast. Let me explain](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/kS-CGkiPetQ/) | 2026-05-30 | Long-form | 8,895,669 | 29:54 | 0.91x |
| [How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/OgFf_J1CP0g/) | 2026-05-28 | Short | 684,500 | 2:40 | - |
| [Can you solve the hat riddle?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/fF32B_sOVHA/) | 2026-05-23 | Short | 1,373,043 | 1:14 | - |
| [How many batteries would it take to power a human?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/Xr2yp8JA9LU/) | 2026-05-20 | Short | 392,207 | 1:45 | - |
| [How Alpha Particles Can Break Computer Chips](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/zXvygWE3Ess/) | 2026-05-15 | Short | 4,401,888 | 2:07 | 0.84x |
| [The Surprising Genius Of Sewing Machines](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/7F4pY8Td9QQ/) | 2026-05-10 | Short | 1,101,141 | 1:13 | - |
| [The CIA's new tech doesn't make sense](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/SVTPv4sI_Jc/) | 2026-05-03 | Long-form | 3,354,428 | 21:18 | 0.33x |
| [The Crystal That Could Destroy All Medicine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@veritasium/videos/ksn5yrsC3Wg/) | 2026-04-29 | Long-form | 10,712,564 | 33:25 | 0.99x |

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