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10:55What Will Humans Look Like 10,000 Years From Now? Predicting the Future from the Past 10,000 Years of Evolution
Human evolution has not stopped; it will continue. So what will humans look like 10,000 years from now? The video first looks back at how the human body has changed over the roughly 10,000 years from
10:32What Happens If You Press the 500 Million Year Button: Solitude, the Perception of Time, and Vanishing Memories
Converted into seconds, 500 million years comes to roughly 15.8 quadrillion seconds. That is a span of time with no relevance to human beings, whose lifespans top out at around 100 years, but in the t
38:07How Were the Universe's First Stars Born, and How Can We Observe Them? Hayato Shimabukuro on the Cosmic Dark Ages and the 21cm Line
After the Big Bang, the universe went through a long era in which neither stars nor galaxies existed. What happened between these "cosmic dark ages" and the birth of the first stars, and how is humani
10:55Why Do Deep-Sea Creatures Grow So Large? Exploring Temperature, Oxygen, Food, and Fragmented Habitats
Less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor is said to have been visually observed by humans. More than 99.999% has yet to be seen directly. Yet this deep sea is home to giant squid that can reach several m
10:52Why Do People with Down Syndrome Look Alike? Considering It Through Trisomy 21
Down syndrome is widely known by name, yet what it actually is remains poorly understood. The video raises this issue and walks through, in order, the basics of chromosomes, the three types of Down sy
3:08:16From the Center of Uranus to the Singularity of a Black Hole: 19 "What If" Journeys Through the Solar System and the Universe
This video is a compilation of roughly three hours of the "What If" series from the science explainer channel VAIENCE. A character wearing a fictional "VAIENCE suit" is dropped onto one celestial body
19:31Artemis II: The 10 Days of Four People Who Traveled to the Far Side of the Moon for the First Time in Half a Century
Since the crew of Apollo 17 set foot on the lunar surface in 1972, humans have not been to the Moon for more than 50 years. Many people have gone to space, but not a single one had traveled beyond Ear
12:31Why Was the Space Shuttle Retired? Cost, Safety, Politics, and the Compromises of the 1970s
On July 21, 2011, the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down on the runway at Kennedy Space Center, bringing all Space Shuttle operations to an end. Over 30 years, the program flew 135 missions, covering
1:02:38Syphilis, Rabies, Tetanus, Invasive Strep, Monkeypox, and Raw Meat: How Six Infectious Diseases Attack the Human Body
This video is a compilation of infectious-disease episodes from the "What Happens If You Get ?" series on the science channel VAIENCE. It covers six topics: syphilis, rabies, tetanus, streptococcal to
12:06Three Hearts and Most of Its Neurons in Its Arms: The Octopus as "Another Intelligence"
Three hearts and blue blood. This video presents the octopus as "an animal that, the more you learn about it, the less it seems like a creature of this Earth," and works through its body plan, nervous
12:52What Happened in the 15 Seconds of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake: Collapse, Fire, and a Disaster Response System That Failed
Smartphones in Japan come with an Earthquake Early Warning feature that sounds an alert before the ground starts shaking. The video names the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake as one of the events that l
18:22What Is a Black Hole? Birth, Event Horizon, Singularity, Observational History, and Evaporation
Black holes are often thought of as "holes in space," but the video begins by rejecting that image. Seen from far away, a black hole is no different from any other celestial object, but get too close
11:37What Happens When You Enter Fuji's Sea of Trees: How Aokigahara Forest Formed and Why People Get Lost
Aokigahara, the "Sea of Trees," carries an image of a cursed place where compasses and cell phones are useless and anyone who enters can never find their way out again. This video asks what you would
11:20Why Ajinomoto Tastes So Good: Examining Umami Perception, Synergy, and the Rumors About Its Safety
In this episode, the science explainer channel VAIENCE poses two questions about the familiar seasoning Ajinomoto: why do people find it delicious, and is it safe for the human body? The program's pos
12:20What Happened on 9/11: The Four Hijackings, How the Towers Collapsed, and the Background
On September 11, 2001, four commercial airliners were hijacked in the United States, and three of them crashed into buildings. The video puts the death toll at 2,977 and describes the attacks as the w
10:26What Happens to Work and the Economy When AGI Surpasses Humanity: Definitions, Timelines, and Two Scenarios
In the few years since ChatGPT appeared in 2022, AI has begun to show abilities equal to or greater than those of humans in areas such as programming, writing, and image generation. This video takes u
10:02What Happens to Your Body If You Eat Nothing but Hamburgers: Examining the Risks of an Ultra-Processed Food
What would happen to the human body if you replaced every meal with hamburgers? Is it truly dangerous, or less of a problem than you might imagine? This video takes up that question with a sharp-tongu
11:13What Was Mars Like 100 Million Years Ago? A Journey Through Time to Before It Became the "Red Planet"
Mars, our neighbor in the solar system, is considered a "dead planet," covered in reddish-brown sand with neither a thick atmosphere nor liquid water. But did Mars look the same long before humans app
2:31:03From the Voids to the Birth of the Universe: 13 Journeys to the Extremes of Space and Time
What lies at the "farthest place" and the "farthest time" in the universe? This video strings together 13 installments of VAIENCE's space series. In space, it visits the galaxy-poor "voids," the regio