As I mentioned in my review of the Chem C3000, it’s sad that science kits usually can’t compete with more mainstream stuff like Guitar Hero. They also tend to be pricey, but the upside is that online…

Arc discharges are common in welding and lightning storms but what about about in altered gravity conditions? How often does that really come up? Not often, unless we ever send manned missions into…

The word 'synchronization' is part of our cultural lexicon - we 'sync up' with other people, 'sync our computers' and 'get in sync'.    There's a reason it resonates (we'll come back to our…

In a previous article I demonstrated how to build a conductivity tester out of Snap Circuits for your Science Play and Research kit. You can use the same circuit with a small modification to build…

Many owl species have developed specialized plumage to effectively eliminate the aerodynamic noise from their wings, allowing them to hunt and capture their prey in silence.  And owls are…

If you have ever wondered about why you can tap a newly opened beer bottle and its suds will foam out and go all over the place, researchers from Carlos III University and Universite Pierre et Marie…

A normally fragile quantum state has been shown to survive at room temperature for a world record 39 minutes, overcoming a key barrier towards building ultrafast quantum computers. In conventional…

Whistling kettles have been around for over a hundred years but science behind the mechanism of this siren sound, portent of delicious tea and cocoa (and heretical instant coffee) has never been…

Patients may soon be able to get a bionic pick-me-up without undergoing the pain and lengthy recovery of surgery - an exoskeleton to support people who, through age or injury, are limited in their…

Anyone who has watched water exit a toilet bowl has learned something about fluid dynamics. But you can learn a thing or two by watching the pee that goes into it also. Boring physicists apply …