No. of episodes 195 | Language English Debut 6 June 2012 | |
Hosted by Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown | ||
AsapScience, stylized as AsapSCIENCE, is a YouTube channel created by Canadian youtubers Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown. The channel produces weekly videos that touch on many different topics of science.
Contents
The two creators have a secondary channel, AsapTHOUGHT, which contains videos that discuss several issues (not all pertaining to science).
Channel
AsapScience videos are about science, with many episodes, such as How Much Sleep Do You Actually Need?, discussing functions of the human body. They sometimes make songs explaining science such as Science Love Song and Periodic Table Song. Each video's scientific concepts are conveyed using colored drawings on a whiteboard and voice-over narration. As revealed in a behind-the-scenes video, Mitchell voices and composes the background music for the videos, while Greg is the primary illustrator. The two are an openly gay couple who met in college while studying biology and have been together since the beginning of 2007.
The most viewed video of the channel currently is What Colour is this dress?, which has over 21 million views. Their videos have been featured in websites such as The Huffington Post and Gizmodo.
In March 2015, Moffit and Brown released their first book, AsapSCIENCE: Answers to the World’s Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena.
In February 2016, Mitchell Moffit was announced as one of the 16 houseguests that will compete on Big Brother Canada 4. He placed 11th and was evicted on day 42.
Collaborations
AsapScience has collaborated with Vsauce3 on 4 videos, The Scientific Secret of Strength and Muscle Growth and What if Superman Punched You?, Can We Genetically Improve Intelligence? and Can You Genetically Enhance Yourself?.
One of the videos, Could We Stop An Asteroid?, featured Bill Nye, who discussed different ways humanity could stop an asteroid if one were on a collision course for Earth.
On 2 February 2014, AsapScience announced that they have collaborated with CBC News to produce one video daily related to sports, for 19 days starting from 6 February.
AsapScience also appeared in IISuperwomanII's '#LEH' and 'IVIVI'.
Statistics
As of February 25th, 2017, AsapScience and AsapThought have about 7 million subscribers combined.