Gav and Dan, The Slow Mo Guys, take one piece of vinyl and spin it so fast it becomes about 50,000 pieces of vinyl. The results are obviously captured by a very high speed camera.
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Tag Archive: physics
There’s a new use for those stale Easter marshmallows you have lying around – calculating a constant that governs the universe.
You’d think that bats and birds fly in similar ways—in fact, many scientists used to consider bat flight a minor variation of bird flight. But, with the aid of high-speed video, researchers have discovered that bat flight is much more complex than initially thought.
Motocross pro Andy Bell attempts to prove physics in one of the coolest and trickiest motocross stunts—hydroplaning across The Slow Mo Guys’s pool.
On this episode of StarTalk, we take a deep dive into the complex, beautiful phenomenon of tides with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice.
As tribute to the life and works of world-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, StarTalk host Neil deGrasse Tyson revisits his interview with the groundbreaking theorist. Also featuring astrophysicist Janna Levin, comedian Matt Kirshen, physicist Michio Kaku, and Bill Nye the Science Guy.
After his interview with Sunday TODAY‘s Willie Geist, renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson showed off some of the unique items around his desk in his office at the Hayden Planetarium, including his wooden Saturn lamp he made in seventh grade and a very tiny reproduction of The Starry Night. And he even gives Willie a science lesson on planetary scale!
Gav and Dan, The Slow Mo Guys, go medieval on some modern-day items with the help of a massive catapult.
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76, but his contributions to humanity will live on forever — including what is arguably his life’s most important work … his appearances on The Simpsons.
