A simple setup flips your expectation in a fun physics demo, showing how science can surprise us in a safe, educational way.

People with fast street cars like to put them through their paces at the quarter-mile track. One way to get your quarter-mile time is to just buckle up and put the pedal to the metal. But if your ...

The water bottle flipping craze, in which a partially filled bottle of water is flipped and magically lands upright, swept the globe a couple of years ago. Now a group of Dutch scientists has designed ...

The study of graphene was starting to go out of style, but new experiments with sheets of the ultrathin material revealed there was much left to learn. By Kenneth Chang In the universe of office ...

Physics Girl and Rodney Mullen explain the unusual physics behind skateboard tricks. Skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen teams up with Physics Girl to explain the unusual physics behind skateboard ...

Discover six fascinating science experiments you can try at home! Learn how to make a glass bubble from a CD, explore static electricity with a straw, and see a chemical reaction inflate a balloon.

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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American One-way mirrors, which many of us know from ...