Dark Science YouTube Stats

@darkscienceyt · Science & Education · Updated Nov 11, 2026

Dark Science channel overview

Dark Science (@darkscienceyt) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2009. It has 948K subscribers and 81M total views across 106 videos, an average of 765K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 475K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 167K views. Over the last 12 months, Dark Science published 10 videos, and 1 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Dark Science make?

Returbe estimates Dark Science's YouTube ad revenue at $2.8K – $9.5K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.5 to $12, typically $6.5, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $6.5K.

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Upload schedule

Dark Science publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (43% of uploads), usually around 06:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 9, 2026.

Dark Science's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Dark Science's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• The Most Dangerous Compound740K views · Nov 9, 20264.4× typical views
• The Most Dangerous Combination of Drugs439K views · Sep 12, 20262.6× typical views
• Why Doctors Stopped Prescribing Barbiturates436K views · Mar 16, 20262.6× typical views
• Why Do Burns Hurt So Much?271K views · Aug 13, 20261.6× typical views
• This is Kidney Failure191K views · Dec 16, 20251.1× typical views
• The Dark Science of Crucifixion436K views · Nov 11, 20251× typical views
• Jumping will destroy your back167K views · Oct 12, 20261× typical views
• Why You Won't Survive Gamma Radiation157K views · Nov 11, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

4 of Dark Science's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Most Dangerous Compound740K views · Nov 9, 20264.4× typical views
• Jumping will destroy your back167K views · Oct 12, 20261× typical views
• The Most Dangerous Combination of Drugs439K views · Sep 12, 20262.6× typical views
• Why Do Burns Hurt So Much?271K views · Aug 13, 20261.6× typical views
• Tied to an Anchor and Dropped 2 Miles Underwater132K views · Jun 14, 20260.8× typical views
• The Dark Science of Marijuana87K views · May 15, 20260.5× typical views
• How Tuberculosis Slowly Destroys You61K views · Mar 16, 20260.4× typical views
• Why Doctors Stopped Prescribing Barbiturates436K views · Mar 16, 20262.6× typical views
• How Steroids Are Destroying Your Heart66K views · Feb 14, 20260.4× typical views
• This is Kidney Failure191K views · Dec 16, 20251.1× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.6K videos from 720 channels in this niche. 13.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: MemeBlaze HFY (1.5K subs, best video 49.1×), Wonderism HQ (54K subs, best video 92×), ClipazoPodcast (30K subs, best video 22.5×), The Scale Room (1.6K subs, best video 522.1×), Female Psychology | Mia Khalifa (8.1K subs, best video 115.4×), Peace of Men (1.8K subs, best video 139.4×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Dark Science or YouTube.