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The Sun Is Weirder Than You Think

If you dove into the sun, the first layer you’d hit is hot enough to make diamonds BOIL. Right now we’re in a golden age of new solar science. For the first time, we’re g

The Vomit Comet ft. Emily Calandrelli

Emily Calandrelli is the host and co-producer of FOX's Xploration Outer Space. She is a grad from MIT and WVU with degrees in aeronautics astronautics, technology and pol

World’s Easiest DIY Electric Train

How do you take copper wire, a battery and magnets and make electric train? With science! This super simple DIY physics demo uses electromagnetic induction to propel a tr

Special Relativity and the Twin Paradox

Special Relativity and the Twin Paradox  

How Rainbows Form

How Rainbows Form    

Stacked Ball Drop

What happens when you drop a perfectly balanced stack of balls? And how is the result like a supernova? The classic momentum transfer demonstration, taken to the next lev

Calculating Pi with Darts

Pi can be calculated using a random sample of darts thrown at a square and circle target. The problem with this method lies in attempting to throw "randomly." We explored

Quarks Explained in Four Minutes

Protons and neutrons are made of three quarks, right? Wrong! Explore the particle they should have told you about when you were a kid!

What do programmers actually do?

What do programmers actually do?    

This phenomenon only happens in Hawaii . . . and Cuba & Nigeria & Indonesia & Peru & Sudan & Laos &…

There are only certain parts of the year and certain times of day when you can experience the subsolar point or Lahaina noon. There appears to be no shadow because the su

Ballistic Ping Pong Ball vs. Tennis Ball at 450km/h!

What happens when you shoot a ballistic ping pong ball going 450kph at a tennis ball?

How Fluid Can Climb Upward! SLIME EXPERIMENT

Slime exhibits some crazy unusual properties, like viscoelasticity, because it's a non-newtonian fluid.

How to float a ping pong ball on air - The Coandă Effect

Widely explained using the Bernoulli principle, this phenomenon is actually dominated by the Coanda effect.

What do programmers actually do?

I left a physics job to do software engineering. Was it worth it? What do software engineers actually do?

How does your reflection flip when you bend a spoon inward?

How does your reflection flip when you bend a spoon inward?

Seeing the Smallest Thing in the Universe

Beyond molecules and atoms, how far down can we see below the wavelength of visible light? What is the smallest possible scale in the universe?

Tricky Spool Riddle SOLUTION - ft Anne Wojcicki

Tricky Spool Riddle SOLUTION - ft Anne Wojcicki    

What's in the darkest part of the sky? The Hubble Deep Field

What happens when you point the Hubble Space Telescope at the darkest part of the sky for 10 consecutive days? Besides using up extremely valuable time, what would you fi

Singing plates - Standing Waves on Chladni plates

Use physics to create cool patterns on a vibrating plate. How is this like a guitar string or a singing wine glass?

Glaciers Are Disappearing Almost As Fast As You Can Ski Down Them | Climate Games

How badly is our planet heating up? I’ve put together an experiment that asks: How much of an olympic-sized swimming pool would be filled with glacial meltwater in the ti