Hank Green follows William Henry Perkin's accidental purple dye from Victorian fashion into the foundations of modern pharmaceuticals.
SciShow has 8,420,000 subscribers and 2,273,134,023 views in all, as of October 24, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 4,231,600 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "The Science That Finally Explains the Dyatlov Pass Incident", with 1,426,545 views. By subscribers it is No. 315 of the 5,387 channels on Trari, and No. 11 of 87 in Science and experiments.
October 22, 2026 2.6x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 1,316,709 views a day, 2.6 times a normal day (514,895).
Hank Green follows William Henry Perkin's accidental purple dye from Victorian fashion into the foundations of modern pharmaceuticals.
Madelyn Leembruggen hosts an explanation of avalanche physics, among five new uploads ranging from fossil mysteries to gold.
Two days old, the interview is gathering views roughly four times faster than the dish-washing and ketamine videos that opened the week.
The Plane Crash That Gave Us Cataract Surgery
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Science and experiments | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 315 of 5,387 | 11 of 87 |
| By views gained this week | 1,347 of 5,295 | 18 of 87 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
September 26, 2026: 8,420,000 subscribers → October 24, 2026: 8,420,000 subscribers (no significant change in the last month)
September 26, 2026: 2,258,132,997 views → October 24, 2026: 2,273,134,023 views · average: 535,750 views a day
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views | Per day | First day | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Plane Crash That Gave Us Cataract Surgery | October 23, 2026 | 8:22 | 73,306 | 111,397 | 73,306 (11 hours) | 1,719 | 99 |
Why Can't Every Shot Be a Pill? | October 22, 2026 | 8:41 | 119,161 | 39,303 | 104,394 | 2,309 | 275 |
Why Weed Doesn't Work on Everyone | October 21, 2026 | 8:53 | 407,672 | 93,552 | 250,807 | 6,886 | 1,268 |
How the Black Market Saved Thousands of Cats | October 20, 2026 | 14:00 | 172,939 | 9,913 | 120,916 | 4,511 | 278 |
How the Color Mauve Saved Millions of Lives | October 19, 2026 | 11:11 | 410,646 | 21,240 | 247,692 | 8,612 | 619 |
5 Unexplored Mysteries of the Deep Sea | October 16, 2026 | 15:57 | 363,410 | 6,925 | 157,135 | 7,289 | 400 |
Why Doesn't Gold Tarnish? | October 15, 2026 | 8:39 | 541,391 | 26,977 | 250,913 | 8,097 | 504 |
Scientists Are Getting Close to Creating a Universal Vaccine | October 14, 2026 | 9:07 | 319,620 | 2,474 | 165,850 | 6,711 | 641 |
The Bizarre Case of the Tully Monster | October 13, 2026 | 12:42 | 531,707 | 3,982 | 262,034 | 9,341 | 659 |
The Cure for Ulcers Is ... Cabbage | October 12, 2026 | 8:29 | 330,345 | 1,601 | 151,850 | 6,418 | 605 |
The Science That Finally Explains the Dyatlov Pass Incident | October 9, 2026 | 44:57 | 1,426,545 | 22,436 | 310,100 | 19,282 | 1,581 |
5 of Science's Weirdest Paradoxes | October 7, 2026 | 12:52 | 431,013 | 2,800 | 157,118 | 7,636 | 378 |
What the Power Pose Controversy Reveals About Science | October 6, 2026 | 12:00 | 210,773 | 1,245 | 108,919 | 3,899 | 269 |
How to Make a Whole City Invisible | October 5, 2026 | 13:18 | 206,931 | 252 | 136,839 | 4,009 | 199 |
This Green Beach Shouldn't Exist | October 2, 2026 | 8:51 | 348,057 | 712 | - | 8,432 | 444 |
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
The Sex Lives of Early Humans | March 15, 2012 | 3:58 | 12,506,249 |
The Deepest Hole in the World, And What We've Learned From … | May 6, 2014 | 4:01 | 12,150,415 |
The 5 Most Dangerous Chemicals on Earth | December 13, 2014 | 10:45 | 11,921,816 |
The Deadliest Toxins on Earth | March 25, 2013 | 10:46 | 9,826,982 |
Bananas Are Not What You Think | The Shocking Truth | July 18, 2013 | 3:59 | 9,731,788 |
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
We solved Roman concrete #shorts #science #SciShow | March 13, 2023 | 0:58 | 22,744,081 |
The sandbox tree has explosive seeds. #shorts #science #Sci… | September 14, 2022 | 0:58 | 15,663,928 |
Don't put water in the microwave. #shorts #science #SciShow | May 9, 2023 | 0:57 | 10,718,880 |
Why does cannabis smell so skunky? #shorts #science #SciSh… | October 27, 2022 | 0:51 | 6,683,924 |
Glass frogs hide their blood in a mirror-coated liver. #sho… | April 5, 2023 | 0:52 | 6,560,666 |
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
Hank Green follows William Henry Perkin's accidental purple dye from Victorian fashion into the foundations of modern pharmaceuticals.
Madelyn Leembruggen hosts an explanation of avalanche physics, among five new uploads ranging from fossil mysteries to gold.
Two days old, the interview is gathering views roughly four times faster than the dish-washing and ketamine videos that opened the week.