The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our home galaxy. In the milky way alone scientists assume there are some 40 billion earth like planets in the hab...
2020-08-02 12:32:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Humans are proud of a lot of things, from particle accelerators, to poetry to pokemon. All of them made possible because of something humans value extremely highly: intelligence.
2020-07-12 12:35:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have released over 1.5 trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide or CO2 into the earth's atmosphere. In the year 2019 we were still pumping out around 37 billion more. That’s 50% more than the year 2000 and almost three times as much as 50...
2020-06-21 12:33:18 +0000 UTC View Post
The sun. Smooth and round and peaceful. Except when it suddenly vomits radiation and plasma in random directions. These solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs can hit earth and have serious consequences for humanity. How exactly do they work, how bad could they be and can we...
2020-06-07 12:45:59 +0000 UTC View Post
In September of 1940, an 18-year-old mechanic named Marcel Ravidat was walking his dog, Robot, in the countryside of Southwestern France when the dog disappeared down a hole. Robot eventually returned but the next day, Ravidat went to the spot with three friends to explore the hole. And aft...
2020-05-24 12:39:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi friends,
We want to update you on some changes that we’ll be seeing here on Patreon.
Due to new laws passing in several countries and US states, Patreon will be required to start chargin...
2020-05-20 12:13:20 +0000 UTC View Post
At this very second, you are on a narrow ledge between life and death. You probably don’t feel it, but there is an incredible amount of activity going on inside you. And this activity can never stop. Picture yourself as a slinky falling down an escalator moving upwards – the...
2020-05-10 12:39:11 +0000 UTC View Post
If you are – like us – stuck at home right now, you and your kids might be in need of a fun creative outlet. We wanted to take this opportunity to give you all a little Care-PDF. We prepared it just for you. It is brimming with lots of fun stuff for the whole family. Print it and get busy col...
2020-04-15 10:13:28 +0000 UTC View Post
In December 2019 the Chinese authorities notified the world that a virus was spreading through their communities. In the following months it spread to other countries, with cases doubling within days. This virus is the “Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2”, that causes the...
2020-03-19 15:48:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Cancer is a creepy and mysterious thing. While we tried to understand it, to get better at killing it, we discovered a biological paradox that remains unsolved to this day: large animals seem to be immune to cancer. Which doesn’t make any sense – the bigger a being, the more cancer it should ...
2020-03-01 13:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
For years, you have been asking us how we make our videos. So let’s finally talk about it! From research, writing the script, illustrating, to animating, narrating and composing music, a Kurzgesagt video takes roughly 1.200 hours to produce!
2020-02-16 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi friends,
We just wanted to let you know, that the rewards for everyone who started supporting us in January will be sent out next week. Thanks so much for your support and patience <3
On a general note:
The rewards a...
Over the last decade milk has become a bit controversial. Some people say it’s a necessary and nutritious food, vital for healthy bones, but others say it can cause cancer and lead to an early death. So who is right? And why are we drinking it anyway?
Nothing in the Universe is static. In the milky way, billions of stars orbit the galactic center. Some, like our sun, are pretty consistent, keeping a distance of around 30,000 light years from the galactic center, completing an orbit every 230 million years. This dance is not an orderly ba...
2019-12-22 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
For most of our history, the human population grew slowly. Until new discoveries brought us more food and made us live longer. In just a hundred years the human population quadrupled. This led to apocalyptic visions of an overcrowded earth. But the population growth rate actually peak...
2019-12-15 13:32:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Everybody is familiar with the feeling that things are not as they should be. That you are not successful enough, your relationships not satisfying enough. That you don’t have the things you crave. In this video we want to talk about one of the strongest predictors of how happy people are...
2019-12-08 13:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources. A more efficient way to get there is a Skyhook (or Spacetether), an ever rotating cable with a counter weight, that catapults spaceships from earth orbit into the depths of space.
2019-11-17 13:33:46 +0000 UTC View PostDear friends,
We are working full speed on sending out your rewards this month, but are a tiny bit behind our normal schedule.
Please bear with us as we will send them your way within the next 2 days <3
Much Love, Felina
2019-11-11 16:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Neutron stars are one of the most extreme and violent things in the universe. Giant atomic nuclei, only a few kilometers in diameter but as massive as stars. And they owe their existence to the death of something majestic.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: the 12,020 Human SPACE Era Calendar has arrived – you can order it now until we sell out and then never again. This year’s calendar focuses on the future of humanity and how we will explore space in the next 10,000 years.
We want to get you t...
As you may have noticed, we like to blow stuff up on this channel. So when the International Red Cross approached us to collaborate on a video about nuclear weapons, we were more than excited. Until we did the research. It turned out we were a bit oblivious off the real impact of nuclear weapons ...
2019-10-13 12:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In nearly every corner of the Earth, ants wage war against each other. Their weapons are what nature gave them. Some have strong armour, deadly stingers or sharp mandibles. And then there is this tiny, and not very impressive ant. But it rules the biggest empire any ant has ever built. A colony s...
2019-09-29 12:36:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes the world feels boring. All the remote islands are visited, the arctic conquered, the dense jungles discovered. Except, there is still a place to explore: A wet deadly desert where mysterious creatures live in total darkness: The deep sea. Let us dive down.
2019-09-15 12:41:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We tried something different this time and we hope you like it. A Big Thanks to everyone who supports us on Patreon. Projects like this would not be possible without you.
Story by Andy Weir
Animated by Kurzgesagt
Every day billions of soldiers fight a merciless war on thousands of fronts, that has been going on for over one hundred million years: The world war of the ants.
2019-08-11 12:36:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally a new addition to our Immune System series!
One of the key players of our immune system is the complement system. An army of millions and trillions of tiny bombs, which work together in a complex and elegant dance to stop intruders in your body.
Sources here: 2019-07-28 12:31:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Electricity is all around us, all the time. It makes our lives easier, safer, more fun and most of us never think about it. But is there such a thing as too much electricity? Electronic devices emit an electromagnetic field, which is suspected to cause cancer. We read countless sources...
2019-07-07 12:30:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are our sources: https://sit...
2019-06-09 12:29:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Being a citizen of the European Union means that many aspects of our lives are regulated by a weird entity. It feels like a huge bureaucracy is making decisions over our heads. How democratic is the EU really and does your vote actually affect anything?
2019-05-19 13:30:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Vaccines are one of our best tools to prevent dangerous diseases, but they come with side effects. So would it be safer not to vaccinate?
2019-05-13 10:24:21 +0000 UTC View Post