"Experiments" Blogs & Blog Posts

What happens when you attach a hot dog to a long stick and touch it to an AM radio broadcasting tower? It talks! From the YouTube description: DO NOT TRY THIS. Seriously. That out of the way, we devised a test to see just how dangerous the RF energy...

John Plant of Primitive Technology continues his explorations of Iron Age technology. In this video, he attempts to remove the carbon (decarburize) from some iron prills he produced using a method demonstrated in another video. His goal was to produc...

YouTube engineer Mark Rober, Joe Bernard of BPS.space, and a team of others, spent three years and a number of frustrating attempts trying to launch an egg into space and then dropping it in such a way that it could safely land back on Earth. —...

As the saying goes, the only thing constant is change, and that’s absolutely true at tech companies. Technology is always changing. And for tech companies, figuring out what those changes need to be and making them happen is paramount. It represent...

Broadly speaking, glass does not do too well at resisting the charms of molten metal: "Most interesting types of glass are getting crushed here!" Car glass fails suddenly; fireproof glass fails in style.

Here's a fun science experiment you can do with M&Ms or Skittles. Just arrange the colorful candies around a plate, pour in some warm water, and fall into a kaleidoscopic stupor as a rainbow wheel sprouts before your eyes.

What would happen to a pair of Crocs if they sat 3 kilometers down on the ocean floor? How about a styrofoam cup? Or a fishing lure? The Hydraulic Press Channel employs a high pressure chamber to subjects those items and more to a simulated 3 kilomet...