Are There More Raindrops In Clouds Or Data In THE Cloud?

The Rest Is Science

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Physics, Science, Mathematics

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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Does "the cloud" hold more data than a clouds hold raindrops? Can a new organ literally rewrite your personality? Professor Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens, VSauce, weigh our massive digital servers against a standard downpour, before unpicking the biology of transplant patients suddenly waking up with entirely new cravings. Michael also has a new Curiosity Box coming featuring an altertative periodic table disguised as a snail pin badge to showoff to Hannah. ------------------- For more information about Cancer Research UK, their research, breakthroughs and how you can support them, visit ⁠⁠https://cancerresearchuk.org/restisscience⁠⁠ Cancer Research UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1089464), Scotland (SC041666), the Isle of Man (1103) and Jersey (247). A company limited by guarantee. Registered company in England and Wales (4325234) and the Isle of Man (5713F). Registered address: 2 Redman Place, London, E20 1JQ. ------------------- Find The Rest Is Science all over the internet by ⁠⁠clicking here.⁠⁠ ------------------- Video Producer: Adam Thornton + Oli Oakley + Jack Meek Video & Social: Bex Tyrrell Producer: Simona Rata Senior Producer: Lauren Armstrong-Carter Head Of Digital: Samuel Oakley Exec Producer: Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the rest is science. This is field notes are, well, sometimes Thursday, sometimes Wednesday,
0:08.0	depending on what part of the world you live in, episode where Michael and I delve into a whole host of
0:15.8	curious items and questions. That's right. Today, I'm going to be showing off some pretty neat little things, including this,
0:22.6	an alternate periodic table arrangement.
0:25.6	Does the periodic table have to be so tably?
0:27.6	Does it have to be so rectilinear?
0:29.6	How would God like the periodic table to look?
0:33.6	Well, we're going to address that today, but first, we're going to start with questions from you all.
0:44.3	This episode is brought to you by Cancer Research, UK.
0:47.5	If you wanted to type out the entire human genome, you would have to type at 60 words a minute for eight hours a day for about 50 years.
0:58.3	Okay, that's the scale of the DNA rulebook inside each one of your cells, telling it when to grow,
1:04.6	when to divide, and when to stop. And different tissues read that same rule book in different
1:09.3	ways. So a skin cell doesn't behave like a lung cell.
1:12.6	And cancer can begin when those instructions change.
1:15.6	Not one dramatic moment, but through small, gradual edits over time.
1:20.6	Now, cancer isn't one disease.
1:22.6	It is more than 200 types shaped by where those changes to the rule book happen and how cells respond.
1:31.3	Cancer Research UK is the world's largest charitable funder of cancer research, backing studies across all types of cancer.
1:38.3	Work that takes years of very careful, steady progress to deliver each breakthrough. For more information about Cancer
1:45.7	Research UK, their research, breakthroughs and how you can support them, visit cancer
1:51.0	researchukuk.org forward slash the rest is science. Okay, right, first up, we've got this really lovely question that came in.
2:06.9	So Matt asked, which technological or scientific heist had the biggest impact on the world?
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