Unbaffled with Jim Al-Khalili YouTube Stats

@unbaffledscience · Science & Education · Updated Nov 9, 2026

Unbaffled with Jim Al-Khalili channel overview

Unbaffled with Jim Al-Khalili (@unbaffledscience) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2026. It has 58K subscribers and 5.1M total views across 44 videos, an average of 116K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 208K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 432K views. Over the last 12 months, Unbaffled with Jim Al-Khalili published 22 videos (45% Shorts), and 3 of them (14%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Unbaffled with Jim Al-Khalili make?

Returbe estimates Unbaffled with Jim Al-Khalili's YouTube ad revenue at $6K – $21K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.21 to $11, typically $5.96, 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 $6K.

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Upload schedule

Unbaffled with Jim Al-Khalili publishes about 6.5 videos a month. Based on its last 22 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (27% of uploads), usually around 21:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Unbaffled with Jim Al-Khalili's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Unbaffled with Jim Al-Khalili's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• It's rare and unstable #science #physics173K views · Sep 14, 202615.6× typical views
• What is DNA tautomerisation?73K views · Oct 15, 20266.6× typical views
• The one element named after a still-living scientist70K views · Sep 4, 20266.3× typical views
• There's more to protons than scientists thought #physics24K views · Oct 20, 20262.2× typical views
• Why Evolution Split Your Brain In Half – Brain Asymmetry with Jim Al-Khalili871K views · Jul 10, 20262× typical views
• The Unknown Story Behind One of the Most Important Discoveries in Physics – with Jim Al-Khalili751K views · Oct 17, 20261.7× typical views
• Welcome to Unbaffled with Professor Jim Al-Khalili19K views · Jul 10, 20261.7× typical views
• There’s a Problem with Quantum Mechanics – Quantum Reality (1/3) with Jim Al-Khalili562K views · Jul 10, 20261.3× typical views

Latest videos

7 of Unbaffled with Jim Al-Khalili's last 22 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Where Does a Leopard Get Its Spots? – With Jim Al-Khalili80K views · Nov 7, 20260.2× typical views
• What do gluons do?6.6K views · Nov 3, 20260.6× typical views
• Throwback to Jim’s trip to the Stanford Linear Accelerator5.2K views · Oct 25, 20260.5× typical views
• There's more to protons than scientists thought #physics24K views · Oct 20, 20262.2× typical views
• The Unknown Story Behind One of the Most Important Discoveries in Physics – with Jim Al-Khalili751K views · Oct 17, 20261.7× typical views
• What is DNA tautomerisation?73K views · Oct 15, 20266.6× typical views
• What Really Happened Between Bohr and Heisenberg in 1941? – with Jim Al-Khalili & Rob Sunderland165K views · Oct 8, 20260.4× typical views
• Has Evolution Learnt From Quantum Mechanics? – with Jim Al-KhaliliI157K views · Oct 8, 20260.4× typical views
• Could you pass through a brick wall?11K views · Oct 5, 20261× typical views
• Did Niels Bohr really have a beer tap?9.9K views · Oct 2, 20260.9× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.7K videos from 565 channels in this niche. 13.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 14K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (54K subs, best video 327.1×), ClipazoPodcast (30K subs, best video 24.6×), The Scale Room (1.5K subs, best video 445.1×), Female Psychology | Mia Khalifa (8K subs, best video 74.3×), Creepy Guy (489K subs, best video 17.7×), Daily IQ Test (3K subs, best video 9.2×).

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Frequently asked questions

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