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13:47What Happens Inside a Sperm Whale If It Swallows You
If a giant whale sucked you in whole, would you be crushed between its teeth, or carried all the way down to its stomach? In this video from VAIENCE, a channel that explores scientific "what ifs," the
17:48What Would Remain If the Entire Universe Were Rolled into a Single Clump? From a Clump of Humanity to Black Hole Cosmology
In the game Katamari Damacy, you roll up small objects one after another to make a single clump grow ever larger. This video explores, step by step and using physical figures, what would happen if tha
39:45What Do Bodies Tell Us? Forensic Pathologist Hirotaro Iwase on Postmortem Changes, Overlooked Causes of Death, and the Limits of Japan's Death Investigation System
What happens to the body when a person dies? What can be learned from the faint traces left on a body, and what has been overlooked? Hirotaro Iwase, a professor in the Department of Legal Medicine at
35:40What Lives on the Galápagos Islands: The Animals of the "Laboratory of Evolution" and How the Islands Formed
The Galápagos Islands lie in the Pacific Ocean roughly 1,000 km west of Ecuador in South America. They are home to animals found nowhere else: a lizard that dissolves its own bones to shrink its body,
39:34Yukinori Kawae on Khufu's Great Pyramid: Why It Was Built, Who Built It, and How
How did the ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid of Khufu, erected at Giza about 4,500 years ago? Were the people involved in its construction really slaves? Are there unknown spaces inside? VAIE
11:09What Happens If You Fall into a Pit Toilet: The Real Danger Isn't the Filth but "Invisible Gas"
Even in Japan, where heated bidet toilet seats have become the norm, just a few decades ago a dark hole gaped open beneath the toilet. This was the "bottan benjo," a pit toilet in which waste isn't fl
36:18Who Lives on the Savanna? Predators, Grazers, Birds, Waterways, and People
Travel across Africa from north to south and the landscape shifts in bands: desert, grassland, tropical rainforest, grassland again, then desert. The video calls the bands on either side of the rainfo
1:02:37Masashi Yanagisawa on the Mysteries of Sleep: Why Living Things Sleep, and What Happens When They Don't
A sleeping creature becomes less responsive to outside stimuli and more exposed to predators. Even so, every living thing with a nervous system sleeps. In this video, sleep scientist Masashi Yanagisaw
11:11What Happens When the Sagrada Família Is Finished: The World's Greatest Church, Bells That Have Never Rung, and Lingering Disputes
On February 20, 2026, a cross was placed atop the central Tower of Jesus Christ at the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. Some outlets responded by reporting that the church was "finally finished." The vid
39:38How Kunpei Kosaka Took a 105.5kg Dogtooth Tuna by Freediving with a Hand Spear: The Spearfisher on the Dangers of the Sea and Instinct
How large a fish can a person take on with nothing but a single spear? This episode of VAIENCE features Kunpei Kosaka, a professional spearfisher who hunts large fish by freediving with a hand spear.
4:06:59From the Extinction of the Dinosaurs to the Beginning of the Universe: 20 VAIENCE "What Ifs" and Mysteries
This video compiles multiple episodes from the science channel VAIENCE into roughly four hours. It covers about 20 topics, ranging from dinosaurs, ancient ruins, energy and space development to the po
57:43From the Beginning of the Universe to Quantum Gravity: Theoretical Physicist Yasunori Nomura on the Frontiers of Cosmology
Yasunori Nomura, a theoretical physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, appeared on a VAIENCE program to talk about how the universe came to be and about unsolved problems in modern physic
11:50Is a Gas Human Scientifically Possible? The Molecular Barrier, the Choice Between Invisible and Toxic, and the Fate of Consciousness
A person swells up like a balloon and explodes during a live broadcast. Using the Netflix drama Gas Human (8 episodes), which features a being people call the "Gas Human" as the culprit behind this un
34:48Creatures of the Amazon's Forests and Rivers: From Jaguars to Uncontacted Tribes
The Amazon rainforest, which spreads across the northern part of South America, spans nine countries, including Brazil, and the video introduces it as a forest that is home to roughly 10% of all the s
58:27Cave Explorer Katsuji Yoshida on the Skills for "Coming Back" from the Dark and the Danger of Panic
Inside a cave, mobile phones and GPS don't work, and your voice doesn't carry to the outside. If you lose your way back, you're left stranded in the dark with no way to call for help. Cave explorer Ka
10:43What Happens in the Brain and Body When You Develop Alcohol Dependence
"I want to stop but I can't." "I can't sleep unless I drink a lot." "Every day feels joyless without alcohol." The video opens by suggesting that if any of these sound familiar, you may already have a
1:31:14Earth 100 Million Years Ago, Antarctica, Everest, and Megaquakes: Exploring Our Planet Through "What If You Went There?"
This video is a compilation of the Earth-themed episodes from the science channel VAIENCE's "What would happen if you went to..." series. It covers, in order, Earth 100 million years ago, Antarctica,
12:02What Happens to the Human Body When Cut by a Japanese Sword? The Legend of Its Sharpness and the Limits of Its Material
In period dramas and fiction, we often see a master draw his sword and, in that instant, slice an opponent clean in two. Today the Japanese sword is mostly treated as a martial arts implement or a wor
10:22Can Barnacles Reproduce on the Human Body?
Many people find the sight of barnacles densely covering rocks along the shore unsettling. Some may even imagine, "What if barnacles attached themselves to a person's body and multiplied?" This video
38:23Microbes That Live in 0% to 30% Salinity, Tube Worms Without Mouths, and Titan's Lakes of Oil: Takeshi Naganuma on Life in Extreme Environments
Extremophile biologist Takeshi Naganuma is a researcher whose interests have expanded from the deep sea to Antarctica and outer space. In this episode, drawing on personal experiences from deep-sea ex