Built for Science
27 videos • 547,680 views • by Tom Scott
Around the world, there are huge laboratories, impressive test chambers, and bizarre contraptions: all built to help us understand the world. Built for science.
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The largest telescope that will ever be built*
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It's the Matrix, but for locusts.
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Why Australia bottles up its air
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The highway where trucks work like electric trains
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Why this observatory fires lasers at satellites
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How the Netherlands simulated the sea
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Testing a zip line that goes round corners
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The first 3D color X-rays
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The artificial gravity lab
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Blindfold balancing in the spinning space chair
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The library of rare colors
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I Got To See And Hold My Brain
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The collapsible crash-test robot car
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This nuclear reactor is run by students
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The giant freezer that tests winter boots
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G-force, jerk, and a giant centrifuge
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Making artificial earthquakes with a huge steel ball
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17 Tonnes of Spinning Glass: Making the World's Largest Telescope
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This is how zero-g flights actually work
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Is it dangerous to talk to a camera while driving?
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Colorado has a giant freezer filled with polar ice
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How The Arecibo Telescope Could Help Save The World
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How To Not Break A Mars Rover
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We hit a drone with lightning
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Zero-G Experiments on Earth: The Bremen Drop Tower
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Connectome Scanning: Looking at the Brain's Wiring
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Science vs the Weather: Salford's Energy House
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