Category: Science / Dot Physics

While you could technically cook a chicken by slapping it, as proposed by a recent meme, you might also cook your hand. We crunch the numbers.

To save two dozen people from an exploding building, Quicksilver must have moved at roughly 280 km/s—if you believe speed is in fact his superpower.

A crash knocked 21 cars out of the Daytona 500. But good news: Everyone walked away, and the video makes for a cool physics problem.

This essential tool lets you measure the electric current and voltage of a circuit. Here's what you need to know to use it correctly.

This electromagnetic catapult flings airplanes into the sky (and giant sleds into the water). Here's how to calculate the projectile motion involved.

In the movie *Gravity*, Sandra Bullock uses a fire extinguisher to maneuver in space. Controlling it is much, much harder than it looks.

If you have a drone, you can use this trick to figure out the size of an object captured on camera.

Superman is more than welcome to use his superpowers to pick up a building. But we really need to talk about his technique.

Turning hot water into snow might as well be the official sport of the polar vortex. Here's what's those water molecules are up to.