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| Date | Ep. | Title |
|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2026 | S2026·E6 | GERMANY IS OVER |
| March 30, 2026 | S2026·E4 | The Most Insane Megaproject You Never Heard About |
| March 10, 2026 | S2026·E3 | This Is the Scariest Place in The Universe |
| February 17, 2026 | S2026·E2 | The Uncomfortable Truth About Ozempic |
| January 7, 2026 | S2026·E1 | Why Are There No Holes Around Trees? |
| December 12, 2025 | S2025·E24 | Tattoo Removal Is Insane |
| December 5, 2025 | S2025·E23 | All Of Human History In One Hour |
| December 2, 2025 | S2025·E22 | Astronomy Is In Crisis...And It's Incredibly Exciting |
| November 25, 2025 | S2025·E21 | Trees Are So Weird |
| November 18, 2025 | S2025·E20 | Let's Talk About Fat |
| November 11, 2025 | S2025·E19 | You're More Stressed Than Ever - Let's Change That |
| November 4, 2025 | S2025·E18 | You Need To Quit Weed. |
| October 7, 2025 | S2025·E17 | AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel |
| September 30, 2025 | S2025·E16 | We Found a Loophole to Survive the End of the Universe |
| September 23, 2025 | S2025·E15 | Pregnancy is Insane |
| September 16, 2025 | S2025·E14 | Can Humanity Stop A Planet-Killing Asteroid? |
| September 2, 2025 | S2025·E13 | The Dumbest Animal Alive |
| August 19, 2025 | S2025·E12 | The Drug To Master Reality |
| August 12, 2025 | S2025·E11 | Alcohol is AMAZING |
| July 29, 2025 | S2025·E10 | Let's Kill You a Billion Times to Make You Immortal |
| July 1, 2025 | S2025·E9 | When Your Body Attacks Itself – Autoimmune |
| June 3, 2025 | S2025·E8 | How Nuclear Flies Protect You from Flesh-Eating Parasites |
| May 20, 2025 | S2025·E7 | Why Does Fentanyl Feel So Good? |
| May 6, 2025 | S2025·E6 | We Finally Answered The MOST Important Question |
| April 22, 2025 | S2025·E5 | Your Time Machine Broke - At The Worst Time In History |
| April 2, 2025 | S2025·E4 | SOUTH KOREA IS OVER |
| March 18, 2025 | S2025·E3 | How Your Brain Fakes Your Reality |
| February 25, 2025 | S2025·E2 | This Is NOT An Anti Meat Video |
| February 4, 2025 | S2025·E1 | This Is What Aliens Might Actually Look Like |
| December 12, 2024 | S2024·E25 | How This Prawn Can Kill You - Allergies Explained |
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| December 10, 2024 | S2024·E24 | Syria, Israel, Ukraine - A New Decade of War |
| December 3, 2024 | S2024·E23 | Black Hole's Evil Twin - Gravastars Explained |
| November 19, 2024 | S2024·E22 | Vaping Is Too Good To Be True |
| November 12, 2024 | S2024·E21 | We Have To Talk About Weed |
| November 5, 2024 | S2024·E20 | The Most Insane Weapon You Never Heard About |
| October 29, 2024 | S2024·E19 | We Fell For The Oldest Lie On The Internet |
| October 8, 2024 | S2024·E18 | We Made an Uplifting Video |
| October 3, 2024 | S2024·E17 | There Is Something Hiding Inside Earth |
| September 24, 2024 | S2024·E16 | This Video Might Save 58 Lives Next Week |
| September 17, 2024 | S2024·E15 | Why Scientists Are Puzzled By This Virus |
| September 12, 2024 | S2024·E14 | We Need to Rethink Exercise (Updated Version) |
| August 27, 2024 | S2024·E13 | We Traveled Back in Time. Now Physicists Are Angry. |
| August 13, 2024 | S2024·E12 | Fever Feels Horrible, but is Actually Awesome! |
| August 6, 2024 | S2024·E11 | A.I. ‐ Humanity's Final Invention? |
| July 16, 2024 | S2024·E10 | We Need to Rethink Exercise – The Workout Paradox |
| June 25, 2024 | S2024·E9 | This Disease is Deadlier Than The Plague |
| June 11, 2024 | S2024·E8 | Do You Have a Free Will? |
| May 21, 2024 | S2024·E7 | This Black Hole Could be Bigger Than The Universe |
| May 7, 2024 | S2024·E6 | Smoking is Awesome |
| April 16, 2024 | S2024·E5 | There Are Thousands of Alien Empires in The Milky Way |
| March 26, 2024 | S2024·E4 | How The Dinosaurs Actually Died |
| February 27, 2024 | S2024·E3 | The Paradox of an Infinite Universe |
| February 20, 2024 | S2024·E2 | What Happens AFTER Nuclear War? |
| January 30, 2024 | S2024·E1 | Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of Time |
| December 17, 2023 | S2023·E21 | From The SMALLEST To The LARGEST - The Ultimate Size Comparison |
| December 12, 2023 | S2023·E20 | Your Tattoo is INSIDE Your Immune System. Literally |
| December 8, 2023 | S2023·E19 | How To Destroy The Universe |
| December 6, 2023 | S2023·E23 | The Moment Kurzgesagt Changed Forever |
| November 29, 2023 | S2023·E18 | The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What? |
| November 21, 2023 | S2023·E17 | The Last Thing That Will Ever Happen |
| November 15, 2023 | S2023·E16 | How to Win an Interstellar War |
| November 10, 2023 | S2023·E15 | 4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour |
| October 10, 2023 | S2023·E14 | Ancient Life as Old as the Universe |
| October 4, 2023 | S2023·E13 | Why Korea is Dying Out |
| September 12, 2023 | S2023·E12 | We Did The Math - You Are Dead! |
| August 22, 2023 | S2023·E11 | How A Nuclear War Will Start - Minute by Minute |
| August 16, 2023 | S2023·E10 | What Happens If You Destroy A Black Hole? |
| August 8, 2023 | S2023·E9 | The (Second) Deadliest Virus |
| July 2, 2023 | S2023·E8 | The Most Dangerous Weapon Is Not Nuclear |
| June 18, 2023 | S2023·E7 | The Reason Why Cancer is so Hard to Beat |
| June 11, 2023 | S2023·E6 | The Black Hole That Kills Galaxies |
| April 11, 2023 | S2023·E4 | Why Aliens Might Already Be On Their Way To Us |
| March 28, 2023 | S2023·E3 | The Business Behind Kurzgesagt |
| February 28, 2023 | S2023·E2 | Your Immune System is More Dangerous than You Think |
| February 14, 2023 | S2023·E22 | How Do Dead Things Become Alive? |
| February 14, 2023 | S2023·E1 | The Most Complex Language in the World |
| December 15, 2022 | S2022·E17 | Black Hole Star – The Star That Shouldn't Exist |
| December 11, 2022 | S2022·E16 | How To Terraform Mars - WITH LASERS |
| December 6, 2022 | S2022·E15 | The Horror of the Slaver Ant |
| November 23, 2022 | S2022·E14 | The Most Extreme Explosion in the Universe |
| November 8, 2022 | S2022·E13 | Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste Into Space? |
| October 18, 2022 | S2022·E12 | What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up? |
| October 4, 2022 | S2022·E11 | Let's Travel to The Most Extreme Place in The Universe |
| September 6, 2022 | S2022·E10 | Why You Are Lonely and How to Make Friends |
| August 16, 2022 | S2022·E9 | Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse? |
| July 26, 2022 | S2022·E8 | The Deadliest Virus on Earth |
| June 28, 2022 | S2022·E7 | The Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future |
| June 7, 2022 | S2022·E6 | Why Change Is so Hard - and How to Fix It |
| May 17, 2022 | S2022·E5 | You Are Not Where You Think You Are |
| May 3, 2022 | S2022·E4 | The Most Horrible Parasite: Brain Eating Amoeba |
| April 5, 2022 | S2022·E3 | We WILL Fix Climate Change! |
| March 1, 2022 | S2022·E2 | Are There Lost Alien Civilizations in Our Past? |
| February 8, 2022 | S2022·E1 | What Happens if the Moon Crashes into Earth? |
| December 14, 2021 | S2021·E17 | Why We Should NOT Look For Aliens - The Dark Forest |
| December 7, 2021 | S2021·E16 | ...And We'll Do it Again |
| November 30, 2021 | S2021·E15 | Is Meat Really that Bad? |
| November 2, 2021 | S2021·E14 | You Are Immune Against Every Disease |
| October 12, 2021 | S2021·E13 | What Dinosaurs ACTUALLY Looked Like? |
| September 22, 2021 | S2021·E12 | Can YOU Fix Climate Change? |
| August 31, 2021 | S2021·E11 | This Virus Shouldn't Exist (But it Does) |
| August 10, 2021 | S2021·E10 | How The Immune System ACTUALLY Works – IMMUNE |
| August 3, 2021 | S2021·E9 | The Largest Black Hole in the Universe - Size Comparison |
| July 6, 2021 | S2021·E8 | How To Terraform Venus (Quickly) |
| June 15, 2021 | S2021·E7 | The Day the Dinosaurs Died – Minute by Minute |
| May 25, 2021 | S2021·E6 | What Are You Doing With Your Life? The Tail End |
| May 11, 2021 | S2021·E5 | TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross |
| April 27, 2021 | S2021·E4 | What If You Fall into a Black Hole? |
| April 13, 2021 | S2021·E3 | Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change? |
| March 9, 2021 | S2021·E2 | What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse |
| February 2, 2021 | S2021·E1 | Worst Nuclear Accidents in History |
| December 15, 2020 | S2020·E20 | What if We Nuke the Moon? |
| December 10, 2020 | S2020·E19 | Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever? |
| December 1, 2020 | S2020·E18 | What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth |
| November 10, 2020 | S2020·E17 | How Large Can a Bacteria get? Life & Size 3 |
| October 27, 2020 | S2020·E16 | Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do |
| October 6, 2020 | S2020·E15 | When Time Became History - The Human Era |
| September 29, 2020 | S2020·E14 | Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it's Complicated. |
| September 22, 2020 | S2020·E13 | The Largest Star in the Universe – Size Comparison |
| August 30, 2020 | S2020·E12 | The Warrior Kingdoms of the Weaver Ant |
| August 16, 2020 | S2020·E11 | Unlimited Resources From Space – Asteroid Mining |
| August 2, 2020 | S2020·E10 | What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale |
| July 12, 2020 | S2020·E9 | What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin? |
| June 21, 2020 | S2020·E8 | Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It? |
| June 7, 2020 | S2020·E7 | Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections |
| May 24, 2020 | S2020·E6 | The Past We Can Never Return To – The Anthropocene Reviewed |
| May 10, 2020 | S2020·E5 | Why Are You Alive – Life, Energy & ATP |
| March 19, 2020 | S2020·E4 | The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do |
| March 1, 2020 | S2020·E3 | Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer - Peto's Paradox |
| February 16, 2020 | S2020·E2 | How to Make a Kurzgesagt Video in 1200 Hours |
| January 26, 2020 | S2020·E1 | Milk. White Poison or Healthy Drink? |
| December 22, 2019 | S2019·E21 | How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines |
| December 15, 2019 | S2019·E20 | Overpopulation & Africa |
| December 8, 2019 | S2019·E19 | An Antidote to Dissatisfaction |
| November 17, 2019 | S2019·E18 | 1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook |
| November 10, 2019 | S2019·E17 | Neutron Stars – The Most Extreme Things that are not Black Holes |
| October 13, 2019 | S2019·E16 | What if We Nuke a City? |
| September 29, 2019 | S2019·E15 | The Billion Ant Mega Colony and the Biggest War on Earth |
| September 15, 2019 | S2019·E14 | What's Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea |
| September 1, 2019 | S2019·E13 | The Egg - A Short Story |
| August 11, 2019 | S2019·E12 | The World War of the Ants – The Army Ant |
| July 28, 2019 | S2019·E11 | Tiny Bombs in your Blood - The Complement System |
| July 7, 2019 | S2019·E10 | Could Your Phone Hurt You? Electromagnetic Pollution |
| June 9, 2019 | S2019·E9 | Is Meat Bad for You? Is Meat Unhealthy? |
| May 19, 2019 | S2019·E8 | Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter? |
| May 12, 2019 | S2019·E7 | The Side Effects of Vaccines - How High is the Risk? |
| April 14, 2019 | S2019·E6 | The Most Dangerous Stuff in the Universe - Strange Stars Explained |
| March 31, 2019 | S2019·E5 | What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once? |
| March 17, 2019 | S2019·E4 | The Origin of Consciousness – How Unaware Things Became Aware |
| February 17, 2019 | S2019·E3 | Loneliness |
| February 3, 2019 | S2019·E2 | Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let's do it! |
| January 13, 2019 | S2019·E1 | Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam? |
| December 27, 2018 | S2018·E17 | Aliens under the Ice – Life on Rogue Planets |
| December 20, 2018 | S2018·E16 | How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure |
| November 25, 2018 | S2018·E15 | End of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity |
| October 23, 2018 | S2018·E14 | Why Beautiful Things Make us Happy – Beauty Explained |
| September 30, 2018 | S2018·E13 | Why Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the World |
| September 16, 2018 | S2018·E12 | How We Could Build a Moon Base TODAY – Space Colonization 1 |
| August 12, 2018 | S2018·E11 | Wormholes Explained – Breaking Spacetime |
| July 22, 2018 | S2018·E10 | What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb in the Marianas Trench? (Science, Not Fantasy) |
| July 1, 2018 | S2018·E9 | Plastic Pollution: How Humans are Turning the World into Plastic |
| June 10, 2018 | S2018·E8 | 3 Arguments Why Marijuana Should Stay Illegal Reviewed |
| May 13, 2018 | S2018·E7 | The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage |
| April 22, 2018 | S2018·E6 | The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations |
| April 8, 2018 | S2018·E5 | Time: The History & Future of Everything – Remastered |
| March 18, 2018 | S2018·E4 | A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism |
| March 1, 2018 | S2018·E3 | String Theory Explained – What is The True Nature of Reality? |
| February 22, 2018 | S2018·E2 | Homeopathy Explained – Gentle Healing or Reckless Fraud? |
| February 1, 2018 | S2018·E1 | Why Alien Life Would Be Our Doom — The Great Filter |
| December 21, 2017 | S2017·E17 | How to Make an Elephant Explode (The Size of Life #2) |
| December 7, 2017 | S2017·E16 | Universal Basic Income Explained — Free Money for Everybody? |
| November 16, 2017 | S2017·E15 | Emergence – How Stupid Things Become Smart Together |
| November 3, 2017 | S2017·E14 | How to Cure Aging – During Your Lifetime? |
| October 20, 2017 | S2017·E13 | Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever? |
| October 5, 2017 | S2017·E12 | How Bacteria Rule Over Your Body – The Microbiome |
| September 21, 2017 | S2017·E11 | Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument |
| September 7, 2017 | S2017·E10 | What Happens If We Bring the Sun to Earth? |
| August 24, 2017 | S2017·E9 | Why Black Holes Could Delete The Universe – The Information Paradox |
| August 10, 2017 | S2017·E8 | What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? (The Size of Life #1) |
| July 26, 2017 | S2017·E7 | Optimistic Nihilism |
| June 8, 2017 | S2017·E6 | The Rise of the Machines – Why Automation is Different this Time |
| May 4, 2017 | S2017·E5 | The Last Light Before Eternal Darkness – White Dwarfs & Black Dwarfs |
| April 13, 2017 | S2017·E4 | Is the European Union Worth It Or Should We End It? |
| March 30, 2017 | S2017·E3 | Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food |
| February 23, 2017 | S2017·E2 | Do Robots Deserve Rights? What if machines become conscious? |
| February 1, 2017 | S2017·E1 | Why Earth Is A Prison and How To Escape It |
| December 22, 2016 | S2016·E16 | Overpopulation – The Human Explosion Explained |
| December 7, 2016 | S2016·E15 | A New History for Humanity – The Human Era |
| November 30, 2016 | S2016·E14 | The Most Gruesome Parasites — Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) |
| November 10, 2016 | S2016·E13 | Fusion Energy Explained – Future or Failure |
| October 21, 2016 | S2016·E12 | The Most Efficient Way to Destroy the Universe – False Vacuum |
| September 21, 2016 | S2016·E11 | Genetic Engineering and Diseases — Gene Drive & Malaria |
| August 10, 2016 | S2016·E10 | Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR |
| July 31, 2016 | S2016·E9 | Death from Space — Gamma-Ray Bursts Explained |
| June 23, 2016 | S2016·E8 | What Happened Before History? Human Origins |
| May 31, 2016 | S2016·E7 | What Are You? |
| May 12, 2016 | S2016·E6 | How Far Can We Go - Limits of Humanity |
| April 14, 2016 | S2016·E5 | Safe and Sorry – Terrorism & Mass Surveillance |
| April 8, 2016 | S2016·E4 | Space Elevator – Science Fiction or the Future of Mankind? |
| March 16, 2016 | S2016·E3 | The Antibiotic Apocalypse Explained |
| March 1, 2016 | S2016·E2 | Why the War on Drugs is a Huge Failure |
| January 31, 2016 | S2016·E1 | The Last Star in the Universe – Red Dwarfs Explained |
| December 23, 2015 | S2015·E16 | What is Something? |
| December 15, 2015 | S2015·E15 | Black Holes Explained – From Birth to Death |
| December 8, 2015 | S2015·E14 | Quantum Computers Explained – Limits of Human Technology |
| November 10, 2015 | S2015·E13 | How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views |
| October 15, 2015 | S2015·E12 | What is Light? |
| August 6, 2015 | S2015·E11 | What is Dark Matter and Dark Energy? |
| July 16, 2015 | S2015·E10 | What If There Was a Black Hole in Your Pocket? |
| July 9, 2015 | S2015·E9 | The Death of Bees Explained – Parasites, Poison and Humans |
| June 4, 2015 | S2015·E8 | The Fermi Paradox II — Solutions and Ideas |
| May 6, 2015 | S2015·E7 | The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All the Aliens? |
| April 1, 2015 | S2015·E6 | 3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Awesome! (3/3) |
| April 1, 2015 | S2015·E5 | 3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Terrible! (2/3) |
| March 26, 2015 | S2015·E4 | Nuclear Energy Explained: How Does It Work? (1/3) |
| March 12, 2015 | S2015·E3 | Banking Explained – Money and Credit |
| February 24, 2015 | S2015·E2 | Measles Explained — Vaccinate or Not? |
| January 20, 2015 | S2015·E1 | How Small is an Atom? Spoiler: Very Small. |
| December 18, 2014 | S2014·E15 | The Ultimate Conspiracy Debunker |
| December 14, 2014 | S2014·E14 | What is Life? Is Death Real? |
| November 6, 2014 | S2014·E13 | The Ebola Virus Explained — How Your Body Fights for Survival |
| October 9, 2014 | S2014·E12 | Is War Over? — A Paradox Explained |
| September 3, 2014 | S2014·E11 | Atoms As Big As Mountains — Neutron Stars Explained |
| August 4, 2014 | S2014·E10 | Everything You Need to Know About Planet Earth |
| July 1, 2014 | S2014·E9 | The Immune System Explained I — Bacteria Infection |
| June 19, 2014 | S2014·E8 | Iraq Explained -- ISIS, Syria and War |
| June 2, 2014 | S2014·E7 | Are You Alone? (In the Universe) |
| May 26, 2014 | S2014·E6 | How to Catch a Dwarf Planet — Triton (MM#3) |
| May 14, 2014 | S2014·E5 | The Moons of Mars Explained -- Phobos & Deimos MM#2 |
| May 5, 2014 | S2014·E4 | How Big Is the Moon? (MM#1) |
| April 10, 2014 | S2014·E3 | Who Invented the Internet? And Why? |
…and 8 earlier episodes not shown. Long-running show.