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Materials science Videos Recommended on Hacker News (42)

Materials science is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 42 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 94 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Materials: metals, alloys, ceramics, composites, transparent wood, semiconductors materials, superconductors, nanotechnology, crystals, fabrication of new materials, strength of materials.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on Finding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams: “I encourage folks to watch this tech talk by HP Research Labs on the discovery of the memristor and implementation details.” — an HN commenter, 2014.

10 mo on HN

Finding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams

The Qualcomm Institute
12 HN recommender · 2010–2024
7 mo on HN

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

Veritasium
10 HN recommender · 2024–2026
5 mo on HN

Revolutionary Paint: How to Make Surfaces Stay Cool in the Sun

Tech Ingredients
5 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HN

The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats

Veritasium
4 HN recommender · 2021–2023
4 mo on HN

Making Infrared Cooling Paint From Grocery Store Items (w/Novel CaCO₃ Microsphere Synthesis)

NightHawkInLight
5 HN recommender · 2023–2026
4 mo on HN

How To Make Infrared Cooling Paint (Electricity Free Air Conditioning)

NightHawkInLight
4 HN recommender · 2022–2025
4 mo on HN

Smelting Iron in Africa (A DEMONSTRATION)

Christopher Roy
4 HN recommender · 2015–2024
4 mo on HN

Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps - Smarter Every Day 86

SmarterEveryDay
4 HN recommender · 2013–2024
3 mo on HN

Nokia Morph Concept (long)

Alexander Budde
3 HN recommender · 2011–2025
3 mo on HN

The Liquid Metal Battery: Innovation in stationary electricity storage

School of Convergence Science
3 HN recommender · 2019–2021
3 mo on HN

Etching small patterns in Glass

Huygens Optics
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HN

Was Roman Concrete Better?

Practical Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
2 mo on HN

The Ridiculous Engineering Of Jet Engines

Veritasium
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HN

What is Concrete?

Practical Engineering
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HN

Glass engineering - designing and making photochromic glass

Applied Science
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022
2 mo on HN

A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning. (2011)

Corning Incorporated
2 HN recommender · 2012–2019
2 mo on HN

MOLTEN GLASS VS Prince Rupert's Drop - Smarter Every Day 285

SmarterEveryDay
2 HN recommender · 2023–2023
2 mo on HN

For the undying 9/11 MORONIC JET FUEL ARGUMENT

purgatoryironworks
2 HN recommender · 2017–2023
2 mo on HN

Demo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)

Applied Science
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HN

The Material Science of Metal 3D Printing

Real Engineering
3 HN recommender · 2019–2024
1 mo on HN

Making uranium glass

NileRed
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

DIY Scanning Electron Microscope - Overview

Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2015–2025
1 mo on HN

The Snowflake Myth

Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN

I Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast

The Thought Emporium
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
1 mo on HN

Richard Feynman "Tiny Machines" Nanotechnology Lecture - aka "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"

Muon Ray
1 HN recommend · 2015–2026
1 mo on HN

.38 Special vs Prince Ruperts Drop at 170,000 FPS - Smarter Every Day 169

SmarterEveryDay
1 HN recommend · 2017–2023
1 mo on HN

Space Shuttle Thermal Tile Demonstration

Roscket Tasartir
1 HN recommend · 2014–2023
1 mo on HN

Your toothbrush is worn-out!

Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HN

Making purple gold

NileRed
1 HN recommend · 2023–2024
1 mo on HN

[593] Gallium vs. Titalium - Abus Padlock Meets a Gruesome End

LockPickingLawyer
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie

IBM
1 HN recommend · 2013–2025
1 mo on HN

Making YBCO superconductor

Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

Attempting to make transparent wood

NileRed
1 HN recommend · 2020–2021
1 mo on HN

How the pyramids were built in Egypt

Geopolymer Institute
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
0 mo on HN

The Glass Age, Part 1: Flexible, Bendable Glass

Corning Incorporated
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HN

Bullet vs Prince Rupert's Drop at 150,000 fps - Smarter Every Day 165

SmarterEveryDay
0 HN recommender · 2017–2025