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Is Veritasium coming back?

Veritasium (2010–present) — science-fiction · mystery · nature on YouTube

The answer: Currently airing — last episode June 14, 2026.
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Genre
Science-Fiction · Mystery · Nature
Network / streamer
YouTube
Premiered
August 15, 2010
Runtime
~18 min per episode
17seasons
441episodes

About Veritasium

Veritasium's return is unconfirmed. The show is currently available on YouTube; the most recent episode aired on May 3, 2026.

Veritasium is a science and education series that explores various topics related to science, nature, and mystery. The show was first premiered on August 15, 2010, and has produced numerous episodes over the years, often focusing on interesting and thought-provoking questions about the world around us.

The series is hosted by Dr. Derek Muller, who presents each episode in an engaging manner. Each episode has a runtime of approximately 18 minutes.

Veritasium episode schedule

441 aired

Aired · 441

DateEp.Title
June 14, 2026 S2026·E15 Does This Prime Pattern Continue Forever?
June 5, 2026 S2026·E14 Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found
May 30, 2026 S2026·E13 How Does Google Maps Actually Work?
May 3, 2026 S2026·E12 Can a quantum sensor detect your heartbeat from 60 km away?
April 29, 2026 S2026·E11 The disaster I never imagined having to worry about
April 15, 2026 S2026·E10 Can you steal $10,000 from a locked iPhone?
April 5, 2026 S2026·E9 This Factory Makes The World's Most Expensive Stuff
March 26, 2026 S2026·E8 The Secret Spy Tech Inside Every Credit Card
March 19, 2026 S2026·E7 Making A Giant Zipper To Explain How It Works
March 9, 2026 S2026·E6 On This Problem Rational People Do Worse
February 25, 2026 S2026·E5 How One Hack Nearly Took Down The Internet
February 17, 2026 S2026·E4 How One Rock (Almost) Poisoned The Entire Planet
February 3, 2026 S2026·E3 How The Fridge Destroyed One of the World's Largest Monopolies
January 29, 2026 S2026·E2 This Tiny Donut (Almost) Broke Physics in 1986
January 19, 2026 S2026·E1 What If You Keep Slowing Down?
December 31, 2025 S2025·E29 The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine
December 18, 2025 S2025·E28 The Most Controversial Experiment in Quantum Physics
December 5, 2025 S2025·E27 Something Weird Happens When E=-mc²
November 26, 2025 S2025·E26 You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong
November 16, 2025 S2025·E25 Why don't jet engines melt?
November 12, 2025 S2025·E24 The Most Dangerous Cognitive Bias
October 31, 2025 S2025·E23 The Most Controversial Idea in Biology
October 1, 2025 S2025·E22 Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are
September 21, 2025 S2025·E21 This liquid explodes when shaken
September 11, 2025 S2025·E20 The Most Dangerous Escalator in Rome
August 31, 2025 S2025·E19 Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
August 22, 2025 S2025·E18 This is the natural disaster to worry about
August 7, 2025 S2025·E17 The Perfect Battery Material Is Dangerous
July 26, 2025 S2025·E16 The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
June 30, 2025 S2025·E15 This mechanism shrinks when pulled
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June 20, 2025 S2025·E14 The Obviously True Theorem No One Can Prove
June 1, 2025 S2025·E13 The Biggest Misconception in Football (ft. Tom Brady)
May 14, 2025 S2025·E12 How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet
April 26, 2025 S2025·E11 The Most Dangerous Building in Manhattan
April 14, 2025 S2025·E10 The Biggest Misconception In Physics
April 2, 2025 S2025·E9 The Man Who Almost Broke Math (And Himself...)
March 20, 2025 S2025·E8 What Happened to the Mars Helicopter?
March 4, 2025 S2025·E7 Something Strange Happens When You Trust Quantum Mechanics
February 18, 2025 S2025·E6 The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong
February 10, 2025 S2025·E5 The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done
February 5, 2025 S2025·E4 What if you just keep zooming in?
January 28, 2025 S2025·E3 Why Super Glue Is Perfect For Gluing Skin
January 21, 2025 S2025·E2 Why Are Scientists Making Robot Insects?
January 1, 2025 S2025·E1 Why Don't Railroads Need Expansion Joints?
December 26, 2024 S2024·E27 The Man Who Went From Doing Drugs To Saving Millions
December 19, 2024 S2024·E26 This Musical Instrument Took Eons To Make
December 6, 2024 S2024·E25 12,419 Days Of Strandbeest Evolution
December 1, 2024 S2024·E24 You're Probably Wrong About Rainbows
November 20, 2024 S2024·E23 What Actually Happened To Amelia Earhart?
November 13, 2024 S2024·E22 The Quest To Make Unbreakable Glass
November 4, 2024 S2024·E21 On These Questions, Smarter People Do Worse
October 29, 2024 S2024·E20 This Single Rule Underpins All of Physics
October 11, 2024 S2024·E19 We Might Find Alien Life In 2333 Days
October 5, 2024 S2024·E18 Seeing Inside a Thermite Reaction
September 30, 2024 S2024·E17 How do QR codes work? (I built one myself to find out)
September 21, 2024 S2024·E16 Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System
August 31, 2024 S2024·E15 What Everyone Gets Wrong About Planes
August 27, 2024 S2024·E14 Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible
August 14, 2024 S2024·E13 These Illusions Fool Almost Everyone
July 31, 2024 S2024·E12 The Real Reason Robots Shouldn't Look Like Humans
June 25, 2024 S2024·E11 Why People Prefer More Pain
May 30, 2024 S2024·E10 What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color
May 3, 2024 S2024·E9 These Are The Avalanches To Worry About
April 30, 2024 S2024·E8 Something Strange Happens When You Follow Einstein's Math
March 28, 2024 S2024·E7 Why is this number everywhere?
March 21, 2024 S2024·E6 How The Most Expensive Swords In The World Are Made
March 7, 2024 S2024·E5 The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math
February 27, 2024 S2024·E4 The Trillion Dollar Equation
February 8, 2024 S2024·E3 Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
January 26, 2024 S2024·E2 The Rainiest Place On Earth
January 15, 2024 S2024·E1 Do People Understand the Scale of the Universe?
December 23, 2023 S2023·E27 What The Prisoner's Dilemma Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything
December 19, 2023 S2023·E26 World's Largest Earthquake Simulator
November 30, 2023 S2023·E25 The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong
November 22, 2023 S2023·E24 The Surprising Genius of Sewing Machines
November 15, 2023 S2023·E23 What The Longest-Running Study on Happiness Reveals
November 4, 2023 S2023·E22 World's Best Night Vision vs World's Darkest Room
November 1, 2023 S2023·E21 The Problem With Science Communication
October 21, 2023 S2023·E20 How One Line in the Oldest Math Text Hinted at Hidden Universes
October 7, 2023 S2023·E19 The Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions (Clean Version)
September 30, 2023 S2023·E18 Extreme Breath-Holding
September 11, 2023 S2023·E17 All The Times We Nearly Blew Up The World
September 3, 2023 S2023·E16 How The Most Useless Branch of Math Could Save Your Life
August 31, 2023 S2023·E15 Should Airships Make a Comeback?
August 3, 2023 S2023·E14 How Important is IQ?
July 18, 2023 S2023·E13 Why Oppenheimer Deserves His Own Movie
July 7, 2023 S2023·E12 The Hidden Science of Fireworks
July 1, 2023 S2023·E11 The Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics
June 21, 2023 S2023·E10 How To Get Venom From The World's Deadliest Spider
June 6, 2023 S2023·E9 The Strange Number System Used Only By Mathematicians
May 24, 2023 S2023·E8 The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
May 13, 2023 S2023·E7 Why Lightbulbs Might Be The Best Idea Ever
April 29, 2023 S2023·E6 How NASA Reinvented The Wheel
April 14, 2023 S2023·E5 Explaining concrete while getting buried in it
March 20, 2023 S2023·E4 How Quantum Computers Break The Internet... Starting Now
March 14, 2023 S2023·E3 World's Strongest Magnet!
February 11, 2023 S2023·E2 143,526 People Agree With Me, 54,536 Disagree
January 23, 2023 S2023·E1 The Stickiest Non-Sticky Substance
December 24, 2022 S2022·E18 3 Ways Of Seeing Invisible Air Flow
December 21, 2022 S2022·E17 I tested the US Military's secret space weapon
December 12, 2022 S2022·E16 How To Measure The Tiniest Forces In The Universe
December 1, 2022 S2022·E15 Inside The Navy's Indoor Ocean
November 19, 2022 S2022·E14 The world depends on a collection of strange items. They're not cheap
November 15, 2022 S2022·E13 What If A Star Explodes Near The Earth?
November 3, 2022 S2022·E12 The Remarkable Story Behind The Most Important Algorithm Of All Time
October 1, 2022 S2022·E11 How Dangerous is a Penny Dropped From a Skyscraper?
August 31, 2022 S2022·E10 World's Highest Jumping Robot
August 2, 2022 S2022·E9 The 4 things you need to be an expert
July 22, 2022 S2022·E8 The Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions
June 30, 2022 S2022·E7 The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer
June 2, 2022 S2022·E6 The Absurd Search For Dark Matter
May 12, 2022 S2022·E5 Why It Was So Hard To Take This Picture (Very Long Baseline Interferometry)
April 29, 2022 S2022·E4 How Electricity Actually Works
April 22, 2022 S2022·E3 The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History
March 22, 2022 S2022·E2 How Horses Save Humans From Snake Bites
March 1, 2022 S2022·E1 Future Computers Will Be Radically Different
December 21, 2021 S2021·E28 The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of
December 1, 2021 S2021·E27 The Snowflake Mystery
November 28, 2021 S2021·E26 Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work
November 19, 2021 S2021·E25 The Big Misconception About Electricity
November 1, 2021 S2021·E24 How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented
October 27, 2021 S2021·E23 I Rented A Helicopter To Settle A Physics Debate
October 16, 2021 S2021·E22 This Robot Walks, Flies, Skateboards, Slacklines
September 30, 2021 S2021·E21 How They Caught The Golden State Killer
September 25, 2021 S2021·E20 How Hidden Technology Transformed Bowling
September 3, 2021 S2021·E19 Why All Scorpions Are Fluorescent
August 31, 2021 S2021·E18 The Universe is Hostile to Computers
August 17, 2021 S2021·E17 Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
August 12, 2021 S2021·E16 The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets
July 30, 2021 S2021·E15 The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve
July 23, 2021 S2021·E14 Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now
July 9, 2021 S2021·E13 The Biggest Myth In Education
June 30, 2021 S2021·E12 A Physics Prof Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong
June 16, 2021 S2021·E11 The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment
May 29, 2021 S2021·E10 Risking My Life To Settle A Physics Debate
May 22, 2021 S2021·E9 Math Has a Fatal Flaw
May 10, 2021 S2021·E8 How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room
April 16, 2021 S2021·E7 This Unstoppable Robot Could Save Your Life
March 31, 2021 S2021·E6 The Surprising Secret of Synchronization
March 26, 2021 S2021·E5 This is why we can't have nice things
March 16, 2021 S2021·E4 The Discovery That Transformed Pi
February 18, 2021 S2021·E3 Why Robots That Bend Are Better
February 4, 2021 S2021·E2 I Asked Bill Gates What's The Next Crisis?
January 27, 2021 S2021·E1 These Pools Help Support Half The People On Earth
December 31, 2020 S2020·E15 The Illusion Only Some People Can See
November 30, 2020 S2020·E14 These are the asteroids to worry about
October 31, 2020 S2020·E13 Why no one has measured the speed of light
October 23, 2020 S2020·E12 Do You Expand With The Universe?
October 20, 2020 S2020·E11 How One Supernova Measured The Universe
October 9, 2020 S2020·E10 Why Gravity is NOT a Force
September 30, 2020 S2020·E9 The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats
September 16, 2020 S2020·E8 How Kodak Exposed The Atomic Bomb
August 28, 2020 S2020·E7 Is Success Luck or Hard Work?
August 18, 2020 S2020·E6 Is Dust Mostly Dead Skin?
July 31, 2020 S2020·E5 Half the universe was missing... until now
July 30, 2020 S2020·E4 The Launch of Perseverance to Mars
June 11, 2020 S2020·E3 Turbulent Flow is MORE Awesome Than Laminar Flow
March 6, 2020 S2020·E2 Parallel Worlds Probably Exist. Here's Why
January 29, 2020 S2020·E1 This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map)
December 28, 2019 S2019·E31 Why New Years Resolutions Fail & How To Succeed
December 14, 2019 S2019·E30 How to Slow Aging (and even reverse it)
December 6, 2019 S2019·E29 Chaos - The Science of the Butterfly Effect
November 20, 2019 S2019·E28 3 Perplexing Physics Problems
October 25, 2019 S2019·E27 Why Trees Are Out to Get You
October 4, 2019 S2019·E26 Engineering with Origami
September 19, 2019 S2019·E25 The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies, Explained
September 13, 2019 S2019·E24 Does Planet 9 Exist?
August 31, 2019 S2019·E23 Flamethrower vs Aerogel
August 16, 2019 S2019·E22 Making Liquid Nitrogen From Scratch!
August 10, 2019 S2019·E21 Mars Helicopter (before it went to Mars)
August 2, 2019 S2019·E20 Why the Future of Cars is Electric
July 19, 2019 S2019·E19 Why Apollo Astronauts Trained in Nuclear Bomb Craters
July 7, 2019 S2019·E18 How Cod Saved the Vikings
June 21, 2019 S2019·E17 I Waterproofed Myself With Aerogel!
June 13, 2019 S2019·E16 Can You Swim in Shade Balls?
May 31, 2019 S2019·E15 World's Lightest Solid!
May 19, 2019 S2019·E14 My Video Went Viral. Here's Why
May 10, 2019 S2019·E13 Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?
April 25, 2019 S2019·E12 Magnetic Micro-Robots
April 19, 2019 S2019·E11 Three Awesome High School Science Projects
April 10, 2019 S2019·E10 First Image of a Black Hole!
April 9, 2019 S2019·E9 How to Understand the Black Hole Image
March 29, 2019 S2019·E8 How Was Video Invented
March 18, 2019 S2019·E7 Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?
March 12, 2019 S2019·E6 Why Machines That Bend Are Better
March 1, 2019 S2019·E5 Can You Recover Sound From Images?
February 18, 2019 S2019·E4 Microwaving Grapes Makes Plasma
February 6, 2019 S2019·E3 Do Salt Lamps Work
January 25, 2019 S2019·E2 The Inverse Leidenfrost Effect
January 11, 2019 S2019·E1 Spinning Black Holes
December 23, 2018 S2018·E17 The Best Test of General Relativity (by 2 Misplaced Satellites)
December 10, 2018 S2018·E16 How Ultrasound Can Deactivate Parts of the Brain
November 26, 2018 S2018·E15 Five Firsts for Mars InSight
November 15, 2018 S2018·E14 The kg is dead, long live the kg
November 2, 2018 S2018·E13 Drinking in ZERO-G! (and other challenges of a trip to Mars)
October 24, 2018 S2018·E12 What Actually Causes Dandruff?
September 29, 2018 S2018·E11 Why Boredom is Good For You
September 19, 2018 S2018·E10 This Toy Can Open Any Garage
September 4, 2018 S2018·E9 How UV Causes Cancer and Aging
August 24, 2018 S2018·E8 Is Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious?
August 13, 2018 S2018·E7 Can You Overdose on Vitamins?
July 21, 2018 S2018·E6 The World in UV
July 14, 2018 S2018·E5 Spinning Sphere of Molten Sodium
June 18, 2018 S2018·E4 My Life Story
April 30, 2018 S2018·E3 Why Einstein Thought Nuclear Weapons Were Impossible
April 2, 2018 S2018·E2 The Threat of AI Weapons
February 7, 2018 S2018·E1 Why Mosquitoes Bite Some People More Than Others
December 12, 2017 S2017·E25 This Particle Breaks Time Symmetry
November 23, 2017 S2017·E24 World's First Car!
November 20, 2017 S2017·E23 Your Body's Molecular Machines
October 16, 2017 S2017·E22 Neutron Star Merger Gravitational Waves and Gamma Rays
September 30, 2017 S2017·E21 Schlieren Imaging in Color!
August 21, 2017 S2017·E20 Total Solar Eclipse (2017)
July 12, 2017 S2017·E19 How We're Redefining the kg
June 26, 2017 S2017·E18 Hydrodynamic Levitation!
June 15, 2017 S2017·E17 How To See Air Currents
June 8, 2017 S2017·E16 Sandwich Bag Fire Starter
June 1, 2017 S2017·E15 NEW Gravitational Wave Discovery!
May 24, 2017 S2017·E14 World's Heaviest Weight
May 18, 2017 S2017·E13 Mars 2020: Nasa's Next Mission To Mars
May 10, 2017 S2017·E12 Is America Actually Metric?
May 3, 2017 S2017·E11 Fire in ZERO-G!!
April 27, 2017 S2017·E10 The Sun Sneeze Gene
April 18, 2017 S2017·E9 4 Revolutionary Riddles Resolved!
April 12, 2017 S2017·E8 4 Revolutionary Riddles
April 5, 2017 S2017·E7 How To Update Your Beliefs Systematically - Bayes' Theorem
March 20, 2017 S2017·E6 Does Water Swirl the Other Way in the Southern Hemisphere?
March 2, 2017 S2017·E5 The Science of Thinking
February 8, 2017 S2017·E4 3 Sources of Water on the Moon
January 30, 2017 S2017·E3 Electromagnetic Levitation Quadcopter

…and 211 earlier episodes not shown. Long-running show.

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