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While space probes have traveled as far as Neptune, humans have only gone as far as the Moon. It’s incredibly hard to send people into space, and as Kurzgesagt explains, it may be impossible for us ever to visit other galaxies. If we don’t die during the years it takes to get there, collisions with
Ed Sheeran, Ringo Starr, and Shakira form a new supergroup courtesy of DJ Cummerbund. Combining “The Shape of You,” “Octopus’s Garden,” “Whenever, Wherever,” and other morsels, “Shape of an Octopus” will have you dreaming of a little hideaway beneath the waves. It’s also got Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Muppets, and the Sinclairs from Dinosaurs.
Here’s one of the more satisfying physics demonstrations we’ve seen. Marcel Clemens rigged up vials filled with different amounts of mercury and connected them to a frame with springs. Released at the same moment, they create a smooth wave pattern that gradually morphs into other patterns. He also created a setup where each vial plays
It’s hammer time! This guy has a truly unique skill. After placing nails a fraction of an inch apart, he’s able to target just the individual nail that he wants and drive it in with a single blow. It looks like his hammer has a special groove in it that might help, but his precision
The Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive” came out just two years before Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt.2” yet they represent opposite ends of the musical spectrum. But in the hands of musician Joshua Woo, prog rock and disco become one. The concept makes no sense, but the result works perfectly. Joshua totally nailed
The first Genesis Magma, the GV60 Magma, is a high-performance electric crossover with a 641 hp, dual-motor drivetrain. Riding lower to the ground than the standard GV60, the Magma rolls on 21″ forged wheels with performance tires, sports a limited-slip diff for cornering, a big spoiler, and special drive modes for track, touring, drifting, and
After watching this video, we assumed that plucked guitar strings vibrated in smooth, undulating curves. But minutephysics shows how that’s not actually the case. It turns out that the waves that are generated are straighter and more angular, and the sine waves we’ve seen in videos before are mostly due to rolling shutter artifacts of
It’s not often that a card-style multitool includes a pair of pliers, but this slim profile tool from NexTool does. Its 20 functions include needle nose and regular pliers, wire cutters, a knife, screwdrivers, wrenches, a wire stripper, spoke wrench, box cutter, bottle opener, and more — all in a stainless steel card that measures
Red Bull’s hilarious Spin Off and Stalen Ros events see crazy-looking bicycles riding through a skinny obstacle course and mostly falling in the water. They treated pro riders Danny MacAskill and Kriss Kyle to a version with much harder obstacles. It helps that their bikes weren’t covered in decorations, but there was nothing easy about
The Slow Mo Guys have made it a July tradition to stuff co-host Dan inside of giant water balloons and then pop them. In this video, he got into a balloon at the top of a wooden ramp, then rolled downhill to capture the action. While Dan always looks ridiculous doing this stuff, the high-speed
Drake Anthony, aka styropyro, shows off a fascinating light source that he created by vacuum-sealing mercury and neon gas in a glass flask. When he shakes it, the friction of the mercury sliding over the glass walls causes it to spark and illuminate the neon. Watch the full experiment video on YouTube to see how
Remember the video game, Paperboy? You know, the one where you scored points by flinging newspapers at people’s welcome mats and mailboxes? Paper Boy Deep is a real-life master at tossing newspapers exactly where he wants them to go. Watch as he perfectly places papers between through doorways, under gates, and into the hands of