Dying In Space, Trapped Water, and What's Hidden In Pi?
Almost every human who has ever lived has one thing in common: they were born and died on Earth. Except for three people. Hannah Fry and Michael Stev...
How Codes Were Used To Hack The Telegram Business
What if a single strange word could save you a fortune? In this episode Michael opens up a Victorian telegram code book and explores how users com...
Why Your Body Needs Gravity
Does space travel make astronauts younger? Professor Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens explore Einstein’s twin paradox, time dilation and NASA’s famo...
What Is Collagen All About?
Do collagen pills live up to their promises for skin and joints and healthy ageing? In this episode, Hannah and Michael examine what collagen actu...
The Threshold of Human Sensation
What is the smallest thing you can possibly feel? Michael Stevens and Professor Hannah Fry journey through varying levels of perception, from t...
The Scale of the Universe
The scale of the universe stretches from the Planck length, the smallest scale physics can describe, to the observable universe, the largest thing we ...
Why Loud Chewing Makes You Angry
The mukbang phenomenon is comfort viewing for millions, yet for others the sound of chewing, slurping and everyday mouth noises is enough to trigger i...
How Does Language Change What You Smell?
In this episode of Field Notes, Professor Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens (Vsauce) begin with a Persian word for a smell Hannah cannot detect on a fres...
Space Elevators, Skyhooks, and Space Fountains
What is the fastest, cheapest and possibly worst way to get into space? Could a nuclear explosion launch a manhole cover beyond the Earth’s atmosp...
Hannah Ranks Michael's Bizarre Watches
Michael Stevens keeps a small museum of unusual timepieces on his desk: a clock that runs backwards, a watch built to be read in complete darkness, an...