This week’s experiment with Lydia from the Discovery Center Museum puts a little bit of a spin on the classic ‘cloud in a bottle’ trick. By using simple materials from home, she ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...

When particles in volcanic ash cloud rub together, some pick up positive charge and others negative – now physicists have ...

In this video I show how to make a balloon inflate all by itself using items from my kitchen. I pour white vinegar into a plastic bottle, then load baking soda into a balloon with a paper funnel. When ...

Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces ...

The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a ...

The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly ...

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter—known as a supersolid—by ...