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Science videos that deserve more views, briefly explained & credited. Plus my own micro-cap research with sources. Long OPTX, AISP. Not financial advice. DYODD

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Unwrapping foil with a Van de Graaf generator, getting shocked in the ass by a Van de Graaf generator, only 2.2k views on YT how? lol

Unwrapping foil with a Van de Graaf generator, getting shocked in the ass by a Van de Graaf generator, only 2.2k views on YT how? lol

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Happy Fourth of July… A penny hides a tiny Lincoln statue inside the Memorial on its back, but he’s too small to have a face. So a focused ion beam gave him one: a real Lincoln portrait milled atom-by-atom in gallium, 18 hours of carving, on that same back side.

Happy Fourth of July… A penny hides a tiny Lincoln statue inside the Memorial on its back, but he’s too small to have a face. So a focused ion beam gave him one: a real Lincoln portrait milled atom-by-atom in gallium, 18 hours of carving, on that same back side.

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A drone with zero moving parts in its propulsion. High-voltage electrode grids ionize air molecules, then accelerate them downward an “ionic wind” carrying the craft on electric thrust alone. The same physics that propels spacecraft, working at sea level.

A drone with zero moving parts in its propulsion. High-voltage electrode grids ionize air molecules, then accelerate them downward an “ionic wind” carrying the craft on electric thrust alone. The same physics that propels spacecraft, working at sea level.

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Swimming upstream is amazing because it flips intuition on its head: instead of being carried by the flow, these tiny swimmers use vortices and pressure gradients in the current to move forward. Garuda Sanjivani shows how life doesn’t fight physics;it recruits it.

Swimming upstream is amazing because it flips intuition on its head: instead of being carried by the flow, these tiny swimmers use vortices and pressure gradients in the current to move forward. Garuda Sanjivani shows how life doesn’t fight physics;it recruits it.

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A stellarator is wild: plasma hotter than the Sun holds its shape along twisted 3D magnetic fields, no current needed. Like turning Kanye in Keanu.

A stellarator is wild: plasma hotter than the Sun holds its shape along twisted 3D magnetic fields, no current needed. Like turning Kanye in Keanu.

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When you orient a strong magnet at the base it forces the plasma to rotate, here it is forming a stable spiral. Next an external magnet is used to manually influence the shape and position of the plasma spiral.

When you orient a strong magnet at the base it forces the plasma to rotate, here it is forming a stable spiral. Next an external magnet is used to manually influence the shape and position of the plasma spiral.

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Gets me everything, his reaction is priceless

Gets me everything, his reaction is priceless

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Möbius strip superconductor fast then slow then just right.

Möbius strip superconductor fast then slow then just right.

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Demo of plasma stellarator filmed at CERN on an employee’s phone.

Demo of plasma stellarator filmed at CERN on an employee’s phone.

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A stellarator is wild: plasma hotter than the Sun holds its shape along twisted 3D magnetic fields, no current needed. It’s like turning Kanye into Keanu, chaos made calm.

A stellarator is wild: plasma hotter than the Sun holds its shape along twisted 3D magnetic fields, no current needed. It’s like turning Kanye into Keanu, chaos made calm.

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Hit a crystal with a hammer and it makes lightning. No battery, no outlet. Squeezing quartz shifts its atoms enough to separate charge, thousands of volts from pure mechanical force. Three stove-lighter elements in series = a visible spark.

Hit a crystal with a hammer and it makes lightning. No battery, no outlet. Squeezing quartz shifts its atoms enough to separate charge, thousands of volts from pure mechanical force. Three stove-lighter elements in series = a visible spark.

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This looks like science fiction. A phased ultrasonic array creates moving pressure points in mid-air at speeds up to 9 m/s with full 360° freedom. LEDs track the acoustic focus, turning invisible sound into floating 3D images. Holograms made from physics, not screens.

This looks like science fiction. A phased ultrasonic array creates moving pressure points in mid-air at speeds up to 9 m/s with full 360° freedom. LEDs track the acoustic focus, turning invisible sound into floating 3D images. Holograms made from physics, not screens.

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A stellarator is wild: plasma hotter than the Sun holds its shape along twisted 3D magnetic fields, no current needed. It’s like turning Kanye into Keanu, chaos made calm.

A stellarator is wild: plasma hotter than the Sun holds its shape along twisted 3D magnetic fields, no current needed. It’s like turning Kanye into Keanu, chaos made calm.

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Researchers at Max Planck created a space-time crystal of magnons at room temp, and filmed it. It repeats in space and time, pulsing forever with no energy input. Just nature, at “rest”. 4 years old

Researchers at Max Planck created a space-time crystal of magnons at room temp, and filmed it. It repeats in space and time, pulsing forever with no energy input. Just nature, at “rest”. 4 years old

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This is a z-pinch: drive a massive current through plasma and its own magnetic field squeezes it inward it literally crushes itself. The same Lorentz force behind lightning and solar flares, harnessed for fusion. Magnetic plasma compression at MIT.

This is a z-pinch: drive a massive current through plasma and its own magnetic field squeezes it inward it literally crushes itself. The same Lorentz force behind lightning and solar flares, harnessed for fusion. Magnetic plasma compression at MIT.

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The single malt homemade acoustic tractor beam, showing some inverted levitation. It’s not air pushing up, it’s trapped in the vibrating frequency

The single malt homemade acoustic tractor beam, showing some inverted levitation. It’s not air pushing up, it’s trapped in the vibrating frequency

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I’ve always been fascinated by the Mercury beating heart. Liquid metal appears to come alive, converting electrical energy directly into motion with no gears or motors. Seeing physics behave this strangely makes Zero-point energy feel less crazy.

I’ve always been fascinated by the Mercury beating heart. Liquid metal appears to come alive, converting electrical energy directly into motion with no gears or motors. Seeing physics behave this strangely makes Zero-point energy feel less crazy.

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Kármán Vortex Street is a repeating pattern of swirling vortices that form when a fluid flows past a blunt object, such as a cylinder or a building.

Kármán Vortex Street is a repeating pattern of swirling vortices that form when a fluid flows past a blunt object, such as a cylinder or a building.

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Bubble cavitation is wild because collapsing bubbles briefly create extreme heat, pressure, light, and microjets strong enough to erode metal turning “nothing” (a void in liquid) into a violent energy event. Empty space suddenly becomes explosive physics. Collapse = power.

Bubble cavitation is wild because collapsing bubbles briefly create extreme heat, pressure, light, and microjets strong enough to erode metal turning “nothing” (a void in liquid) into a violent energy event. Empty space suddenly becomes explosive physics. Collapse = power.

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The roundworm has a brain, 302 neurons, tiny but real. A Dileptus has none. It's a single cell. No brain, no nerves, nothing. Yet both turn, back up, poke around, change their minds. If a single cell can explore with no brain, where does intelligence actually live?

The roundworm has a brain, 302 neurons, tiny but real. A Dileptus has none. It's a single cell. No brain, no nerves, nothing. Yet both turn, back up, poke around, change their minds. If a single cell can explore with no brain, where does intelligence actually live?

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Place a ball on a saddle it falls, spin the saddle it stays…a ball is trapped in a time-varying quadrupole gravitational potential

Place a ball on a saddle it falls, spin the saddle it stays…a ball is trapped in a time-varying quadrupole gravitational potential

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A dead trout placed in a vortex wake swims upstream without muscle movement, and it won the 2024 IG Nobel Physics Prize. The fish’s flexible body resonates with swirling water patterns, passively extracting energy. Live trout use the same trick, reducing muscle effort by ~50%.

A dead trout placed in a vortex wake swims upstream without muscle movement, and it won the 2024 IG Nobel Physics Prize. The fish’s flexible body resonates with swirling water patterns, passively extracting energy. Live trout use the same trick, reducing muscle effort by ~50%.

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Your watching semiconductor surgery

Your watching semiconductor surgery

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A rotating ball casts a shadow that perfectly matches a mass on a spring, revealing how circular motion and simple harmonic motion are linked. A visual proof of sine-wave physics in action.

A rotating ball casts a shadow that perfectly matches a mass on a spring, revealing how circular motion and simple harmonic motion are linked. A visual proof of sine-wave physics in action.

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This is another 13 year old video showing a weapon most people don’t know we have called, Active Denial System, It shoots 95-GHz millimeter waves that heat the top layer of skin. Effect: Feels like instant burning → people run away.

This is another 13 year old video showing a weapon most people don’t know we have called, Active Denial System, It shoots 95-GHz millimeter waves that heat the top layer of skin. Effect: Feels like instant burning → people run away.

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General Fusion hit a world first (Oct 8). Its LM26 machine is the first fusion device to reach 1 keV, more than 12 million °C, using practical low-speed compression, a plasma being squeezed by liquid-metal pistons, basically a diesel engine for fusion. Here’s their design.

General Fusion hit a world first (Oct 8). Its LM26 machine is the first fusion device to reach 1 keV, more than 12 million °C, using practical low-speed compression, a plasma being squeezed by liquid-metal pistons, basically a diesel engine for fusion. Here’s their design.

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A rapidly rotating magnetic field creates a stable “bound state,” letting repelling magnets orbit without touching. It’s a striking example of how dynamic fields can produce unexpected stability. Sudanamaru (Hamdi Ucar)

A rapidly rotating magnetic field creates a stable “bound state,” letting repelling magnets orbit without touching. It’s a striking example of how dynamic fields can produce unexpected stability. Sudanamaru (Hamdi Ucar)

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Propeller vortices are invisible corkscrews of air shed by spinning blades. They carry energy, cause noise and drag, and shape how efficiently a drone flies. Every prop is really making tiny, organized tornadoes.

Propeller vortices are invisible corkscrews of air shed by spinning blades. They carry energy, cause noise and drag, and shape how efficiently a drone flies. Every prop is really making tiny, organized tornadoes.

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I forget how many miss that when a propeller spins fast,it creates extreme low pressure on the blade’s back that water vaporizes. The collapsing bubbles create micro-jets at 100+ m/s. The bubbles are mini explosions. Reminder that there’s a lot beneath the surface.

I forget how many miss that when a propeller spins fast,it creates extreme low pressure on the blade’s back that water vaporizes. The collapsing bubbles create micro-jets at 100+ m/s. The bubbles are mini explosions. Reminder that there’s a lot beneath the surface.

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Made up of nine individual simple planes linked wing-to-wing into an 18-foot span “unbreakable wing” that flexes like a bird or wave in flight.

Made up of nine individual simple planes linked wing-to-wing into an 18-foot span “unbreakable wing” that flexes like a bird or wave in flight.

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People don’t realize the Air Force Research Laboratory is weaponizing cavitation. QUICKSINK does not hit the ship directly it detonates a 2,000 lb bomb in the water beside/under a ship, creating a massive bubble void; the water’s return force can break the ship in half.

People don’t realize the Air Force Research Laboratory is weaponizing cavitation. QUICKSINK does not hit the ship directly it detonates a 2,000 lb bomb in the water beside/under a ship, creating a massive bubble void; the water’s return force can break the ship in half.

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Dude put a speaker in a lake playing the Schumann resonance. The fish like it

Dude put a speaker in a lake playing the Schumann resonance. The fish like it

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A law of physics, made visible with dye: fluid spin can't be created alone. Every clockwise vortex must be born with a counterclockwise twin the two colors are a conservation law balancing its books. Fish exploit this: their wake is a jet of paired spirals.

A law of physics, made visible with dye: fluid spin can't be created alone. Every clockwise vortex must be born with a counterclockwise twin the two colors are a conservation law balancing its books. Fish exploit this: their wake is a jet of paired spirals.

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A laser can ride a falling stream of water. Shine it through a hole in a milk-clouded soda bottle and the beam stays trapped by total internal reflection, the same physics as fiber optics, just liquid and gravity doing the guiding.

A laser can ride a falling stream of water. Shine it through a hole in a milk-clouded soda bottle and the beam stays trapped by total internal reflection, the same physics as fiber optics, just liquid and gravity doing the guiding.

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Racing plasmoids controlled by a tiny neodymium magnet. The magnet reshapes the local magnetic field, the plasmoid locks to it, and suddenly a chaotic, self-organizing plasma behaves like it’s on rails. Only 563 views on YT

Racing plasmoids controlled by a tiny neodymium magnet. The magnet reshapes the local magnetic field, the plasmoid locks to it, and suddenly a chaotic, self-organizing plasma behaves like it’s on rails. Only 563 views on YT

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This spinning ring of air just registered 55 gram reduction on a kitchen scale. Clip in comments

This spinning ring of air just registered 55 gram reduction on a kitchen scale. Clip in comments

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Magnetic levitation and contactless melting of metal, the whole video is awesome but he’s my favorite clip

Magnetic levitation and contactless melting of metal, the whole video is awesome but he’s my favorite clip

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The Galton board + Pascal’s Triangle shows how randomness leads to order. It’s a physical glimpse into probability, entropy, and the foundations of statistical mechanics,core to how physics understands everything from gas particles to quantum states.

The Galton board + Pascal’s Triangle shows how randomness leads to order. It’s a physical glimpse into probability, entropy, and the foundations of statistical mechanics,core to how physics understands everything from gas particles to quantum states.

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A living mandala under the microscope, Trichodina, a single-celled parasite on fish. Its disc spins with perfect symmetry and cilia, a sacred geometry of motion and balance where even a parasite mirrors the universe’s hidden order.

A living mandala under the microscope, Trichodina, a single-celled parasite on fish. Its disc spins with perfect symmetry and cilia, a sacred geometry of motion and balance where even a parasite mirrors the universe’s hidden order.

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