Use physics to create cool patterns on a vibrating plate. How is this like a guitar string or a singing wine glass?

Create "lightning" in your living room! Make giant sparks by building up static charge on a homemade 2-plate capacitor, and discharging through a grounded rod. Watch as my friend Ashley agrees to touch the charged-up capacitor. How is it...

I ask Anne Wojcicki, founder and CEO of 23andMe to answer some logic and physics riddles. Yes, it's mean and fun.

How do you take copper wire, a battery and magnets and make electric train? With science! This super simple DIY physics demo uses electromagnetic induction to propel a train made of magnets and batteries.

Slime exhibits some crazy unusual properties, like viscoelasticity, because it's a non-newtonian fluid. We can use non-newtonian properties to make the fluid "defy gravity" and climb up a spinning rod. This is called the Weissenberg effect.

Lasers are known to burn things, fix eyes, and dance on powerpoint presentations. But they can also be used to cool objects to some of the coldest temperatures in the universe.

The New Horizons probe reached its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 at 7:49 EST. We have received more and more detailed images and data about the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon. Very exciting times!

How did the field of quantum mechanics come about in the first place? The Rayleigh-Jeans catastrophe, also known as the ultraviolet catastrophe was a prediction by the Rayleigh-Jeans law that a blackbody would radiate infinite amounts of...

What could go wrong diving in a nuclear submarine in the arctic? For one, we nearly lost our drone.

Take a look at a bubble and you’ll see all the colors of the rainbow... right? WRONG. Bubbles are actually missing colors!

As the weather gets colder and dryer, you are more likely to get shocked when getting out of a car, touching a door knob, or doing laundry. Is there a way to prevent getting shocked on the car door?

We visited a giant field of solar mirrors to learn about Concentrated #Solar Power technology!

Watch a soda can rip itself apart in a fiery explosion at 11,000fps with a Phantom high speed camera. Running a current through a coil, produces an electromagnet. Turn up the voltage in this experiment, and make that current strong...

Why do mirrors appear to flip images horizontally but not vertically?

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What happens when you drop a perfectly balanced stack of balls? And how is the result like a supernova? The classic momentum transfer demonstration, taken to the next level. A big thank you to my nephews and niece Drew, Max and Whitney...

Protons and neutrons are made of three quarks, right? Wrong! Explore the particle they should have told you about when you were a kid!

Solar and lunar eclipse - which is which? And how can you finally remember the difference?

The physics behind rainbows and surprising facts about rainbows.

When we cut the electricity to an inductor, we get a sudden intense spark across the switch. This is known as inductive kickback or a back EMF and is produced because of Faraday’s Law of Induction. Not mean to be tried at home! The...

You throw a rock in water from your boat. Can you figure out what happens to the water level?

The world's largest digital camera is currently being assembled at a warehouse in California. We caught the short window of time to see the camera's massive lens.

Physics Girl riddle: what happens to your image if you bend a spoon from concave to convex?

Surface tension holds the surface molecules of liquids tightly together and makes for some fun experiments!