balls Ball bearing ramp challenge: which reaches the bottom first? Rob Beschizza

agnosticism Physicist Michio Kaku: "Reaching out to aliens is a terrible idea" Mark Frauenfelder

ftl Scientists may have figured out how to make a warp drive work Thom Dunn

generator Draw your own iceberg and see if it flips Miss Cellania

egg mcmuffins Robotic egg-cracker built entirely using Legos Clive Thompson

tracking "A Small Antelope Horn" looks at animal tracking and theoretical physics Andrea James

atomic clocks Earth's rotation sped up in 2020, we may need a "negative leap second" Clive Thompson

Synchronized Watch these metronomes spontaneously synchronize Andrea James

physics 3D printed "impossible domino" bounces back upright Andrea James

pvc PVC cement spins wildly when dropped in water Andrea James

design diaries Creator spent 11 years developing epic Line Rider course Clive Thompson

star trek Physicists make tiny model of Star Trek's USS Voyager that's smaller than a human hair David Pescovitz

hydrodynamics Cool demonstration of aerodynamic bearings Andrea James

wringing Ultraflat materials can be stuck together via wringing Andrea James

fluids Liquids get mixed, then unmixed due to Stokes flow Andrea James

Nobel Prizes When newly-minted Nobel Prize winner Roger Penrose riffed on very weird physics with Joe Rogan (2018) David Pescovitz

vortices Here's a faster way to empty a bottle or jug Andrea James

bouguer gravitational anomaly The Bouguer gravity anomaly means that gravity is not evenly distributed Thom Dunn

fluid dynamics Watch how sediments settle much faster in an angled container Andrea James

Leidenfrost effect Don't dip your hand in boiling hot oil like this Andrea James