The world's first nuclear chain reaction took place 75 years ago today. On December 2, 1942, physicists Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard led the team that conducted the experiment at the University of Chicago as part of the...

Mark Rober (previously at Neatorama) builds a contraption in his backyard to play with sand. It's more than a sandbox- it's a hot tub full of sand, which can be made liquid with the injection of air. But you better keep...

Have you ever seen a paper balloon? The Japanese toy called kamifusen has been around for over 100 years. Japanese mathematician Tadashi Tokieda blows one up, but that's not the only way you can make your kamifusen round...

Of course cats are into physics experiments. In 1975, Jack Hetherington wrote a physics paper called Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange...

In this video from space, we see what happens to a spinning handle in low gravity. The gyroscopic force is strong with this one. What we are seeing is the Dzhanibekov effect, also called the Tennis Racket theorem.[https:...

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzaQjS1JstY](Video Link)In Ghostbusters, Dr. Egon Spengler tries to explain the level of paranormal danger that New York City faces. He uses a Twinkie as an anology:Let's say this Twinkie...

The explanation of the universe starts with the ve...  ...o thinks of rhyming ebola virus with Miley Cyrus? Physics

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkrgUT70Mbo](Vide...  ...0Mbo](Video Link)I'm struggling to figure out the physics here.This novel teapot of Chinese orgin has two c...

Norwegian physicist Andreas Wahl goes way out of h...  ...s Wahl goes way out of his way to demonstrate how physics work. Here he is, experimenting on himself for th...

We’ve seen how strange ferrofluids can be, a...  ...tps://youtu.be/RtBtD0_KZ9o] (YouTube link)Cosmic. Physics Girl (previously at Neatorama) says don’t t...