Science
in 8bit

Science for everyone. We turn the hidden science inside everyday things into forty-second pixel films anyone can follow, one exact number at a time.

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3.96M

views in the channel’s first nine days, counted on Instagram on 21 October 2026

1.1M

views on This car drove upside down, the biggest film so far

91%

of views came from people who don’t follow us yet

22,445

followers, from zero on 13 October 2026, the first 10,000 in five days

262K

likes, comments, shares and saves on the films

Pixel-art frame from This car drove upside down: a sports car on a road at sunset, 60 mph This car drove upside down1.1M views Pixel-art frame: a smiling salt shaker and the count 1,000,000 atoms wide Your salt grain is a million atoms wide444K views Pixel-art frame from How the Sun shines: two hydrogen nuclei and a core temperature counter How the Sun shines374K views Pixel-art frame from Why bees build hexagons: a growing honeycomb and a cell counter Why bees build hexagons215K views Pixel-art frame from Why the middle stays cold: a bowl hot at the edges and cold in the middle Why the middle stays cold206K views Pixel-art frame: a bone with its marrow open, releasing red blood cells 2.4 million blood cells a second204K views Pixel-art frame: an eye under a dotted circle ten moons wide Your eye has a hole in it152K views Pixel-art frame: a smiling green star, 280 light-years away You’ve never seen a green star99K views Pixel-art frame from The glow stick: a lit stick at a night camp The glow stick93.1K views Pixel-art frame from How a star is born: a collapsing pink cloud around a new star How a star is born71.6K views Pixel-art frame: a smiling ice cream cone and a sign reading 0 pain sensors Why brain freeze hurts63.7K views Pixel-art frame: earbuds in their case and a purple noise monster How noise-cancelling works59.5K views

1,505,661

accounts reached by the films in the channel’s first nine days

Science that travels

Counted on Instagram on 21 October 2026, the channel’s ninth day. Nine in ten views came from people who didn’t follow us.

11.6K

shares of This car drove upside down, passed from one person to the next

70

films and posts in nine days

Why we make them

Science shouldn’t need a degree, a lab or an hour. It belongs to everyone, so we make it small enough to fit in a scroll and true enough to repeat at dinner.

For everyone
No jargon and nothing to know first. If you can watch forty seconds, you can follow it, whatever your age or school.
Inside everyday things
The salt on your fries, the soup in your microwave, the blind spot in your own eye. The science is already around you; we make it visible.
One exact number at a time
Every film is built around one real, sourced number: 2.4 million blood cells a second, a salt grain a million atoms wide.
Bedtime stories about the universe
Pixel art keeps it warm and calm. Stars, cells and atoms become characters you remember long after the film ends.

Behind the films

A small team that loves science and knows what makes forty seconds stick. We sweat every number and every pixel so you only see the wonder.

Frame from Why bees build hexagons: hexagonal cells filling with honey
Every number checked. Every pixel placed on purpose. Every film made to be watched twice.
The Science in 8bit badge: a pixel star with an 8

One small team, from the first question to the last pixel. If it’s on screen, it’s true.

Make your own

The Animated Shorts Studio is a 119-page guide to setting up your own studio and turning any idea into an original animated short, from crisp pixel art to a style that’s only yours. Your first video in about a day.

$49 early bird until 28 October 2026, then $79.

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New films every day, about forty seconds each, every fact sourced. Follow @science_in_8bit and the next one lands in your feed.

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