Filmed at the University of Melbourne’s swimming pool, Todd Sampson uses the laws of physics to dramatic effect Water molecules are packed much more tightly together than air molecules and therefore ...

Yes. I just posted about MythBusters. However, I thought this would be an appropriate time to also talk about the physics involved with the "shoot the merry go round" myth. The basic idea of the myth ...

In the MythBusters Bullet Baloney episode, a variety of bullet myths were tested. Each myth has some interesting physics but there is some hidden physics in this episode also. Let's take a look at ...

St. Louis Cardinals games are already a pretty horrible experience, but this week, things went to a pretty terrifying level. A woman in the stands at the Cardinals-Brewers Tuesday was hit with a stray ...

Let's get one thing out of the way: we're not talking about a bullet fired into your car having something in common with one fired into water. Rather, we're talking about the shape of the bullet, and ...

No matter how many times you’ve seen the movies and the TV shows that have a protagonist leaping in the path of a bullet, physics forbids such sacrifice. This article was published in Scientific ...