The Atomic Level
August 2010: University of Minnesota Students Build Neutrino Detector
April 2011: A New Fundamental Force?
December 2011: Why Atoms Contain Empty Space
March 2012: How Atomic Clocks Work
September 2013: Bohemian Gravity!
February 2021: Bohemian Gravity Take 2
April 2013: Dark Lightning!
September 2013: J. Frank Parnell's Views on Radiation
March 2015: There can Never Be Too Many Particles!
August 2015: Naturally Occurring Atomic Fission (sans Chips)
January 2016: Tabletop Particle Accelerator
May 2016: Real Plutonium
September 2016: Cold Welding
December 2016: Quantum Mechanics Explained Through Oildrops
April 2017: Negative Mass: Is It Really Real?
March 2018: Proton Earth, Electron Moon
December 2019: Is There a Fifth Force?
January 2020: Are There More Types of Neutrinos?
January 2020: The Strange Charm Quark Song
November 2020: Gauge Blocks and van der Waals Forces
April 2021: Muon Experiment Disrupts Standard Model!
February 2022: Fusion Breakthrough
April 2022: The Demon Core
April 2022: Nuclear Reactor Startup
April 2022: Projectile Fusion Article
April 2022: Projectile Fusion Video (Narrated by a Ringo Starr-Clone)
September 2022: This Is Why Safety Systems are Needed on Reactors
January 2023: The Photoelectric Effect
February 2024: How Kodak Exposed Nuclear Testing
July 2024: Fun with Irradiated Salt!
February 2025: Origin of the Elements
Chemistry Meets Physics
January 2013: High Speed Video of Chemical Reactions
June 2013: Hot Charcoal Meets Liquid Oxygen
February 2014: Pouring Mercury into Liquid Nitrogen
December 2014: The Mercury Playlist
January 2016: Tungsten Floats on Mercury
September 2016: Cold Welding!
March 2017: Making Heavy Elements
August 2017: Aluminum Meets Mercury
September 2018: Hydrogen to Ammonia and Back
September 2019: Gallium Fights Aluminum and Wins Big
February 2020: The Formula for Giant Bubbles
March 2023: Making Aerogels
Electricity and Magnetism
May 2011: Levitating Bubbles
March 2012: Twisted Waves (Polarized Microwaves!)
November 2012: Reluctance Motors
March 2013: Plywood vs. 15,000 V
June 2013: Power Line Arc!
March 2014: Electricity Meets Abstract Art
November 2014: Quantum Levitation
December 2014: World's Simplest Electric Train
April 2015: Magnetism Meets Special Relativity
April 2015: Superconducting Racetrack
October 2015: Magnet Versus TV
October 2015: Steelyard Soviet Radar 40 MW
October 2015: Homemade Railgun: Adult Supervision Required!
December 2015: The 45 Tesla Magnet!
April 2016: Ultracapacitors! 2600 F
May 2016: The Metal Melter: Do Not Build This, Even WITH Adult Supervision!
May 2016: Misusing an MRI Machine
December 2016: Hoverboards!
January 2017: Electromagnetic Levitation
January 2018: How Much Voltage Can You Stand?
August 2018: Electroboom Returns with Vacuum Chamber Skip to 3:40
October 2018: 1200T Magnetic Field
February 2019: Magnetic North Drifts!
May 2019: Grace Hopper and the Nanosecond
November 2020: Glowing Grapes!
January 2021: Magnetism Meets Astronomy
March 2022: The Mercury Vortex
November 2022: Never Short a Li-ion Battery! Never! Never!
December 2022: Black Start of the Power Grid
January 2023: The 9,000,000 mA-h Power Supply!
November 2023: Scary Electronics!
May 2025: Even Scarier: The 20 kW Microwave
July 2025: Induction Lamp
Electronics
October 2011: Microscopic Gyroscope
September 2012: Femtosecond Photography!
January 2013: Robotic Bird
October 2021: Grandfather of Robotic Bird
January 2013: Robotic Dog
October 2020: Son of Robotic Dog
January 2021: Dance of the Killer Robot
February 2013: Nanocopter
January 2015: The "Slayer" Telsa Coil
December 2016: Fake and Real Wireless Power -- Electroboom!
November 2017: Headless Killer Robot
November 2017: Bogus Active Noise Canceling
February 2019: It Blocks EMF! It's Not Magic, It's Science!
May 2019: Grace Hopper: Teaching Computers to Understand English
April 2022: Overclocked Bug Zapper
August 2022: Raspberry Pi for Biomedical Research
December 2022: How Flicker Lamps Work
January 2023: OLD Electronics: The Talking Pictures
July 2024: More Old Electronics: Quartz Crystals in WWII
Harmonic Motion, Music and Sound
March 2011: Ripple Tank Wave Simulator
August 2011: Sound Perception and Overtone Video
September 2012: Resonance in 32 Metronomes
May 2012: Scotts Valley STEAM Club Ruben's Tube
April 2014: 2-D Ruben's Tube
August 2014: How Swings Work
November 2014: Mechanical Fourier Analyzer
January 2015: Cymatics!
September 2016: The REALLY BIG Wave Tank
June 2017: Strange Resonances: The Apprehension Engine
November 2021: Apprehension in Quarantine
November 2017: The Two-Dimensional Pendulum
August 2021: Resonant Glass at 188 kHz
July 2022: San Francisco Wave Organ
August 2022: Weird Musical Instruments: The Horrendion!
Heat and Pressure
November 2010: Maxwell's Demon
September 2012: Ping Pong vs. Liquid Nitrogen And, no, you should NOT try this!
January 2013: Negative Temperatures!
February 2013: Supersonic Ping-Pong Ball - How to Build One Video of Supersonic Ball in Motion
June 2013: Heating a Shuttle Tile
December 2013: Liquid Nitrogen Freezes
November 2014: Prince Rupert's Drops
January 2017: Prince Rupert vs. Bullet
November 2014: Superfluid Helium
November 2016: Liquid Aluminum vs. Dry Ice and Liquid Nitrogen WARNING! VERY DANGEROUS!
DO NOT! DO NOT! DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!
December 2016: Liquid Nitrogen and Coke DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!
October 2018: Is Glass a Liquid?
November 2018: Ping-Pong Vortex
January 2019: Frozen Bubbles
April 2019: More Fun with Liquid Nitrogen
March 2021: The First Celsius Thermometer
August 2022: Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
September 2022: Does Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold Water?
March 2023: Hot and Cold Freezing: The Mpemba Effect
May 2024: Float Your Boat on Supercritical CO2
Light and Vision
December 2010: Perception of Impossible Colors
April 2013: The Deadly (and Highly Color-Perceptive) Mantis Shrimp!
December 2014: Schlieren Optics
February 2015: Slow-Motion Laser Beam
August 2017: More Schlieren Refraction
August 2017: Slow-Motion Laser Beam: A Better Explanation
October 2017: The Poisson Bright Spot
December 2017: Diffraction in Canadian Money
May 2018: The White Laser
May 2019: Filming the Speed of Light
September 2020: Faster Than Light?
March 2023: The Physics of LED Lights
Miscellaneous
January 2011: Redefining the Kilogram
January 2011: Turbo Entabulator
April 2011: Wave Disk Internal Combustion Engine
January 2014: Google and Googleplex
January 2014: Redefining the Ampere
January 2014: Sand Acts Like Water
November 2014: Liquid Armor
April 1, 2015: Physicists Search for The Force
April 2015: The Programmable Writing Automaton
December 2015: Boat Floats on Gas!
May 2016: Paper Folding! Fun on the Hydraulic Press Channel
October 2016: Are We Running Out of Helium?
December 2016: Mercury-Filled Balloons
December 2016: More Fun with Mercury
August 2017: Physics Misconceptions
September 2017: Major Tom to Ground Control
August 2018: Robots Versus Music
August 2018: Cymatics Part 2
April 2019: Tom Lehrer: Werner von Braun
September 2019: More from the Hydraulic Press Channel
October 2019: Make a Gas Engine from Spare Parts!
December 2019: What Is the Fifth Dimension?
January 2020: Jansen Linkage: The Bicycle That Walks!
March 2020: Start the Car with This Rube Goldberg
March 2020: Cookie Monster versus IBM
April 2020: A Game for You: A Slower Speed of Light
October 2020: Wernher von Braun
November 2021: Renewables Can't Save the Planet
February 2022: Mass-Produced Light Bulbs
September 2022: It's Science! Welcome to the igNobel Awards!
September 2022: Ockham's Razor is Dulled
October 2022: The Commodorecordion
March 2023: Plate Tectonics Stop Motion
May 2023: Make Your Own Antikythera Device
August 2023: Join the CAT Scan-of-the-Month Club
June 2024: Why Bridges Don't Sink
December 2024: Evolution of the Strandbeest
Motion
October 2010: A Semi-Stable Object: The Gomboc
July 2012: The Wall of Death
October 2012: Free-Fall from Space
October 2014: Loop the Loop in a Real Car
July 2015: The Magnus Effect
August 2019: Veritasium Magnus Effect
August 2015: Three Gorges Dam Slows the Earth!
January 2017: Rotational Inertia
March 2017: The Brachistochrone!
August 2017: The KFC Bucket Aeroplane: Magnus Redux
April 2018: Superluminal Motion
December 2019: Bicycle Aerodynamics
May 2021: 64000 : 1 Gear Ratio
March 2023: Torque in Car Engines
March 2024: Googol:1 Gear Ratio (If you Believe it!)
March 2024: Gyroscopic Precession
May 2024: The Mecanum Wheel Bike
August 2024: The Croc Wheel Bike
Rockets, Space and Time
September 2010: Intelligent Life on Gliese 581?
November 2010: Before the Big Bang?
December 2010: Lightsails!
May 2011: Largest Photo Ever of the Night Sky - Interactive and Zoomable
May 2011: Gravity Probe B -- Einstein Vindicated!
March 2012: The Scale of the Universe
September 2012: The Galaxy That Shouldn't Exist
October 2012: Travel Inside a Black Hole
March 2013: Gravitational Lensing
March 2013: Voyager Leaves Solar System
September 2013: Voyager: The Sound of Space!
September 2013: Astronomy Photo of the Year 2013
September 2013: Discoveries from the ISS
December 2013: NASA on Orbital Mechanics
December 2013: Building the Better Spacesuit
August 2014: The Antikythera Mechanism
January 2015: Mass Bends Space-Time
February 2015: The Rocket-Powered Wheel
April 2015: Magnetism Meets Special Relativity
April 2015: The Universe in All Spectra
October 2015; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
December 2015: Strange New Stars
December 2015: The Non-Dense Black Hole
January 2016: Blue Horizons Launch Analyzed
February 2016: Evidence for Gravitational Waves
October 2016: See Spacetime Curvature!
November 2016: Colliding Black Holes
November 2016: When Black Holes Collide
December 2016: How Far Out Can We Go?
January 2017: More On Detecting Gravitational Waves
January 2017: Landing on Pluto
March 2017: Hungry Black Holes
September 2017: Bring a Piece of the Sun Home!
January 2018: Stars' "Heartbeats"
January 2018: The Nature of Nothing
January 2018: Space Telescopes
March 2018: What If the Sun Went Supernova?
March 2018: Black Holes Convert Matter to Energy
August 2018: Moon Stars in Music Video
March 2019: Time Lapse of the Future of Earth
April 2019: Black Hole Discovery
September 2019: Astronomy Photo of the Year
October 2020: Journey to Pluto
January 2021: Stars Orbit a Black Hole
January 2021: Article on Magnetism and Astronomy
November 2021: How to Move the Sun
August 2023: Time Travel in Movies
April 2024: The Scariest Rocket Engine Ever Designed