Because chemistry and physics are magic, this is a video of a guy wowing his friend with a length of stretched out nickel-titanium wire (aka Nitinol, a shape-memory alloy) that, when heated in a glass of hot water above its transition temperature (the temperature at which it was deformed), returns

This is a video of ex-NASA engineer turned YouTube money maker Mark Rober (previously) setting the world record for the world’s tallest elephant toothpaste chemical reaction, mixing hydrogen peroxide, soap, and potassium iodide in a 5-ton flask with a resulting volcano that reaches a respectable altitude of 250-feet. Obviously, if

This is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill using a vacuum chamber to increase a cup of liquid nitrogen’s evaporation (as a result of increased boiling due to the lower pressure), causing the temperature to drop until it freezes into a solid around 66 degrees above absolute zero

This is a video from James Orgill of Action Lab Shorts showing what happens when you pour some delectable sulfuric acid on a roll of toilet paper. According to James, the reason this happens is because the sulfuric acid is removing the water molecules from the toilet paper in a

This is a video of the biochemist behind Youtube channel NileRed Shorts (previously: dissolving a penny in nitric acid) discussing why white phosphorus is so dangerous, in a very watchable 50 seconds. So, why is white phosphorus so dangerous? Because it reacts with oxygen and likes to GET LIT and

Presumably not found heads-up on the sidewalk for good luck, this is a video of Youtuber NileRed Shorts completely dissolving a penny in nitric acid. As the penny dissolves, it produces noxious nitrogen dioxide gas, and, after about ten minutes, you’re left with nothing but a beaker full of dark

Science: it’s best done at home in front of your webcam. Case in point: Cody here of Youtube channel Cody’sLab first inhaling dense gas sulfur hexaflouride and talking so we can hear what that sounds like, then inhaling some perfluorobutane (a gas almost twice as dense as sulfur hexaflouride) and

Ever wonder what’s in the Big Mac you’re eating? Of course not, that’s exactly what you try not to do when you’re eating fast food. But to ruin that for you is this Fast Food Chemistry clip from Insider, where a Big Mac is recreated using all 54 ingredients that