Author: Rhett Allain

On a scale from "light thwack" to "geez, watch it with that thing!"

Sometimes real science isn't nearly as exciting as pretend science.

A typical car can travel 30 miles on just one gallon of gasoline. How do electric vehicles stack up?

You just have to add up all the rectangles.

How do you pull off a banking turn if there's no road to bank off?

To understand Bernoulli's principle, it helps to think of air as a bunch of tiny balls.

Calculating fundamental constants used to be a much harder job.

Yup, this whole trailer is just an excuse to do physics.

You can use Bernoulli's principle to explain how planes fly—but that isn't the only way.

Four-person bobsled teams go faster than two-person teams—but why?