The Rest Is Science YouTube Stats

@therestisscience · Science & Education · Updated Nov 6, 2026

The Rest Is Science channel overview

The Rest Is Science (@therestisscience) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2025. It has 800K subscribers and 225M total views across 205 videos, an average of 1.1M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 544K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 578K views. Over the last 12 months, The Rest Is Science published 58 videos (60% Shorts), and 4 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, The Rest Is Science gained 27K subscribers and 18M views, about 1.1M views a day.

How much does The Rest Is Science make?

Returbe estimates The Rest Is Science's YouTube ad revenue at $43K – $147K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.4 to $4.78, typically $2.6, 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 $2.6K.

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Upload schedule

The Rest Is Science publishes about 19.6 videos a month. Based on its last 58 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (31% of uploads), usually around 23:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

The Rest Is Science's best outlier videos

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

• Are we living in a simulation?1.8M views · Sep 3, 20263.8× typical views
• Lugduname is TOO SWEET (and toxic) to eat1.6M views · Sep 8, 20263.5× typical views
• An introvert’s dream 😂1.6M views · Sep 16, 20263.3× typical views
• What's the smallest thing you can be?1.5M views · Sep 2, 20263.1× typical views
• What's a DFA button?1.3M views · Oct 14, 20262.8× typical views
• You’ve been tapping the wrong part of a shaken can to stop it fizzing1.2M views · Oct 16, 20262.5× typical views
• Real medicine can work better if people think it might be a placebo 🤯1.2M views · Oct 17, 20262.5× typical views
• Something Weird Is Going On With Placebos1.4M views · Oct 11, 20262.5× typical views

Latest videos

7 of The Rest Is Science's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How did a Cancer Research UK scientist help solve the mystery of breast cancer risk?2.6K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Sharks breaking the internet5.9K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• The Rainbow Under The Ocean265K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• Is 100 Better Than 101?333K views · Nov 1, 20260.6× typical views
• A sound from the Marina Trench387K views · Oct 31, 20260.8× typical views
• 7 Accidentally Creepy Sounds619K views · Oct 29, 20261.1× typical views
• Lāhainā Noon199K views · Oct 27, 20260.4× typical views
• Earth’s Tilt Makes Time Slippery484K views · Oct 25, 20260.8× typical views
• The History Of Chairs 🪑465K views · Oct 22, 20261× typical views
• What Happened When We Stopped Squatting?571K views · Oct 21, 20261× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.2K videos from 322 channels in this niche. 10.7% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 8.8K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (51K subs, best video 400.5×), ClipPodcast (29K subs, best video 23.1×), The Scale Room (1.3K subs, best video 281×), Past the Blue (34K subs, best video 16.9×), The Why Side (47K subs, best video 194.4×), MrCappuccino Shorts (293K subs, best video 70.5×).

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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 The Rest Is Science or YouTube.