The hidden science behind the bottle-smash trick? Cavitation! Check ...more
Thermite is the big daddy of backyard pyrotechnics. Beware. Playing with this stuff is not kid's play a la Mr. Wizard. It is wholly ...more
Who needs a tap measure when you have an old crappy CRT computer ...more
Watch an intimate dance performance in the depths of your own home. With who? Mothballs. You put mothballs in a vinegar and baking powder ...more
Explore the inner workings of the wing of a butterfly at an atomic level. Understand this visually stunning wonderment!
This is a total cool science experiment. Make goop. You know that ...more
We all know how to suck an egg into a glass bottle with a match, but ...more
Wally Wallington has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes ...more
Mr Brunner shows us how to grow dry ice bubbles in buckets. You need soap, cloth strips and a big bowl. Oh and of course dry ice. This takes ...more
Elephant toothpaste is the name given to the catalyzed decomposition ...more
Is this for real? Can you actually make fire from a potato? Sure ...more
You might just have to be a chemist to perform this cool science experiment, but if you have the right chemistry equipment, you can try it ...more
If you're out of matches and lighters and you just have to light a candle for a certain someone's birthday muffin, then head no further than ...more
If you live by the 45th parallel north, then you're just the person for making this cool sundial. It's a horizontal sundial for science and ...more
C For Chemistry's science experiments are not only fun, but ...more
This is an Instructable on how to harvest squid ink. Clean your own squid, and collect ink for printing or cooking!
Learn how to rip a penny in half. Enough said.
Like all great science this requires caution. Also, Mr Beaty here is a total pro. Complaints regarding the fact this is NOT liquid nitrogen ...more
Make a tomato glow in the dark using three household chemicals and the step-by-step instructions in this how-to video. You need a syringe ...more
Learn how to make this spooky, amazing floating static orb. It uses static electricity to make a tinsel orb levitate above a PVC pipe ...more
Tokyo art student, Wataru Itou, spent four long years crafting his meticulous paper city, entitled "A Castle On the Ocean". The miniature papercraft city was constructed with ...
Yves Rossy, AKA Jetman, attempted to fly across the Atantic from Morocco to Spain yesterday. His homemade, jet powered wings "span 8 feet and are powered by four kerosene-fueled jet engines ...
Thinking of deep frying a turkey this Thanksgiving? Careful. Or this might happen: Luckily, Alton Brown (of Food Network) offers a thorough step-by-step on how to fry that bird. Hackaday has also ...
So, I suppose we're going both redneck and Thanksgiving turkey twice today (Redneck Slingshot Chick + Extreme Thanksgiving Recipes). Something about home for the holidays inspires... and this is ...
Well, maybe these folks aren't redneck. That is a pretty nice house, and that slingshot doesn't look too jery rigged. But the idea of a human slingshot is certainly redneck (and lotsa fun). Previously ...
