Tesla coils are super cool and there have been some rad videos that have surfaced on youtube of home experiments. In any of these videos, do not try this at home without the supervision of a professional! This one here is interesting. A guy makes a tesla coil at home and fires it up against…
Superconductivity Record Has Been Broken
Superconductors may have incredible future travel applications as they have much less resistance when constructing traditional rails, tracks and the like. Now, they may have discovered propeties of incredible performance from an unsuspecting compound: Hydrogen sulfide — the compound responsible for the smell of rotten eggs — conducts electricity with zero resistance at a record high…
They Made A Hover Bike That Seems To Actually Work
The quest for hover awesomeness may have really began with the Back To The Future Movie where a futuristic Michael J Fox outran his foes on a hover board. Then the inevitable viral parodies took hold, none more famous than the celebrity endorsed hoax which upset a lot of people. Now this company may actually…
Time Experiment From 1971 Gives Interesting Clues
Do the past, present and future all exist at the same time? Personally I think it is a possibility but am not ready to accept this yet. However, they did an interesting experiment in 1971. They flew a clock around the world and noticed some interesting findings when they looked at it. This may support some…
Laser Guy Is At It Again With A DIY Lightsaber
Here is a cool DIY lightsaber that the infamous styropyro has made in his garage/lab/home. NOTE DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME WITHOUT THE SUPERVISION OF A PROFESSIONAL. Here is how the home experimenter describes himself on his site: Hi everybody, styropyro from YouTube here! I badly need to update this website, but for now…
Antimatter Is Puzzling And It May Be Abundant In Space
In studying the universe, we often look at enormous formations that are extremely far away with instruments such as the Hubble telescope. However, in this particular endeavor, they will be examining the actual particles themselves and their properties to better understand how they effect things on a massive scale. Here is an intro to this fascinating…
These Subatomic Particles Are Mirrors Images Of Each Other
This sounds like something out of science fiction but it may be science reality, and it’s very interesting: In a stringent test of a fundamental property of the standard model of particle physics, known as CPT symmetry, researchers from the RIKEN-led BASE collaboration at CERN have made the most precise measurements so far of the…
Quantum Entanglement Experiment With 3,000 Atoms
This is potentially revolutionary in that it turns the world of material physics around yet again, on a bigger scale. Scientists say they have achieved quantum entanglement — a spooky state where the behavior of separate atoms is linked even if they are huge distances apart — for thousands of atoms. Using just a single…
Quantum Entanglement And The Universe
Quantum entanglement is one of the most controversial topics in science. The reason is that it takes the material world of physics and turns it…simultaneous (science joke 😉 ) Some of the biggest names in modern physics, Professor Leonard Susskind, Stanford University’s world renowned theoretical physicist and one of the fathers of string theory, Professor…
Do You Think You Could Ride This Particular Bicycle?
This bike is normal except for just one thing.. This experimenter tweaks a bike to make a point about learning and humans in general. And here is an intro about the video where he attempts to ride this altered device: A quick clarification…. It took me 8 months to learn how to do this, but…
This Machinery Is Bright…Like More Than The Sun
Apparently the diamond synchrotron is bright. How about 10 billion times brighter than the sun! Here is a bit more on how this type of device works and what it is: The entire world of synchrotron science depends on one physical phenomenon: When a moving electron changes direction, it emits energy. When the electron is…
Basketball Is Thrown Off A Cliff Into The Clouds Does Something Insanely Cool
This Is Absolutely Insane! The Magnus Effect. This is one of the most awesome science experiments of the year! Earlier in the month, veritasium did a similar experiment 1.0 which deserves respect a well. What is displayed in the video is something called the magnus effect. Here is the description from wikipedia: The Magnus effect…
Most Powerful Laser Ever Has Just Been Fired
This is awesome who doesn’t like lasers! Now the question is, what will they use this thing for? Scientists in Japan have set the record for the most powerful laser ever fired, producing a 2 petawatt pulse – that’s 2 quadrillion watts – using a device known as the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiment (LFEX).…
This Compound’s Melting Point Is As High As Two Thirds Of The Sun
Awesome…now what do we do with this? Hold on, hold on! We may have a new world record here. Researchers from Brown University may have found a substance with a melting point that beats out the previous record by a few hundred degrees. The candidate is a combination of three elements: hafnium, nitrogen and carbon, and…
What Are Cynematics?
This is an awesome video of music being played next to different scientific apparatus if you will. Much like the history of dance video or any steadicam shot, this video nicely segues into a stream of intense visuals. One by one the effects that are observed consist of the vibration of music and it really is…
Coca Cola & Milk Experiment: What Happens Next?
Ah the mysterious and debated chemical compound we call Coca Cola. Some people love it, a few people hate it and many science experiments have studied the properties of the drink as well as its various containers. Possibly the most infamous viral science video in regards to soft drinks are the dudes with lab coats who put…
Programmable Magnets Are Here…Seriously
Magnets have been used in industrial application as well as leisurely inventions such as the etch-a-sketch, buckyballs and more. Now they have made programmable magnets? While at Capital Factory in Austin, we got a demo from Correlated Magnetics Research VP Stephen Straus. Currently operating under various grants and military contracts, they are looking to reach out…
Lasers + Liquid Nitrogen = Awesomeness
Here is a cool experiment by the well known laser dude styropyro! This experiment works by utilizing liquid nitrogen to cool the semiconductor to -196ºC, robbing it of much of its thermal energy. This causes the “bandgap” energy to increase, thereby increasing the emitted photon energy and decreasing the emission wavelength. Oodles of liquid nitrogen…
Super Fast Rotating Nitrogen Molecules
Scientists have finally visualized a super fast rotating nitrogen molecule at a hundred billion per second: To visualize such an ultrafast molecular rotation, the team developed a Coulomb explosion imaging setup with regulating rotational direction by a pair of time-delayed, polarization-skewed laser pulses. In the sequential “snapshots”, the team successfully reported high-resolution direct imaging of direction-controlled…
Do not try this at home!
DO NOT try this at home. This is probably a really poor use of judgement. That being said, it is pretty darn neat to watch. This home inventor is displaying the capabilities of a huge Tesla coil. As you can see the copper coil configuration and cylinder structure work on small devices as well as…
