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Everyday physics & science demos Videos Recommended on Hacker News (166)

Everyday physics & science demos is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 166 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 341 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Physics in everyday life: science demonstrations, Steve Mould, Smarter Every Day, slow-motion experiments, optics, sound and acoustics, fluid dynamics, counterintuitive science, citizen experiments.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition): “By far the best introduction to the subject of waves of any sort.” — an HN commenter, 2019.

2 mo on HN

Hovering a Helicopter is Hilariously Hard - Smarter Every Day 145

SmarterEveryDay
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
2 mo on HN

Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon

LightningOnDemand
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HN

Testing if 60 minutes of silence drives you crazy

Veritasium
2 HN recommender · 2014–2019
2 mo on HN

BTD10: The 835kph Sailplane and Dynamic Soaring

TNG Technology Consulting GmbH
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HN

How Do Bikes Stay Up?

minutephysics
2 HN recommender · 2016–2024
2 mo on HN

Tesla Valve Explained With Fire

NightHawkInLight
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021
2 mo on HN

The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium

Technology Connections
2 HN recommender · 2018–2021
1 mo on HN

The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies

Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HN

DIY Scanning Electron Microscope - Overview

Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2015–2025
1 mo on HN

The Snowflake Myth

Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN

Is 5G Spelling Our DOOM?! How EM Waves Can Hurt

ElectroBOOM
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

Dangerous tattoo remover from eBay is a MILLION watt laser

styropyro
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HN

Air Conditioning isn't free... but we're close.

Tech Ingredients
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HN

How dangerous are magnetic items near an MRI magnet?

practiCal fMRI
1 HN recommend · 2011–2023
1 mo on HN

levitating frog

Graham McLeod
1 HN recommend · 2012–2014
1 mo on HN

The Universe is Hostile to Computers

Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2021–2024
1 mo on HN

Why is light slower in glass? - Sixty Symbols

Sixty Symbols
1 HN recommend · 2018–2021
1 mo on HN

What if you swam in a nuclear storage pool?

xkcd's What If?
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
1 mo on HN

Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
1 HN recommend · 2011–2025
1 mo on HN

.38 Special vs Prince Ruperts Drop at 170,000 FPS - Smarter Every Day 169

SmarterEveryDay
1 HN recommend · 2017–2023
1 mo on HN

The Original Double Slit Experiment

Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021
1 mo on HN

How anti-theft tags work - magnetostriction

Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2017–2020
1 mo on HN

Can you fold paper more than 7 times with hydraulic press

Hydraulic Press Channel
1 HN recommend · 2016–2026
1 mo on HN

Laser diode self-mixing: Range-finding and sub-micron vibration measurement

Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2019–2025
1 mo on HN

Space Shuttle Thermal Tile Demonstration

Roscket Tasartir
1 HN recommend · 2014–2023
1 mo on HN

CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford

Nigel John Stanford
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HN

1 million fps Slow Motion video of bullet impacts made by Werner Mehl from Kurzzeit

Matt Rece
1 HN recommend · 2009–2023
1 mo on HN

Mechanical circuits: electronics without electricity

Steve Mould
1 HN recommend · 2022–2024
1 mo on HN

OK Go – The One Moment – Official Video

OK Go
1 HN recommend · 2016–2026
1 mo on HN

What salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and more

Explosions&Fire
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HN

Shockwave traffic jams recreated for first time

New Scientist
1 HN recommend · 2009–2026
1 mo on HN

How to Surface a Submarine in the Arctic Ocean - Smarter Every Day 260

SmarterEveryDay
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

Imaging at a trillion frames per second | Ramesh Raskar

TED
1 HN recommend · 2012–2019
1 mo on HN

TMS Bicycle, stable without gyros or trail (TMS=two-mass-skate)

Arend Schwab
2 HN recommender · 2013–2019
1 mo on HN

The artificial skylight that you won't believe isn't real

Lux Magazine
1 HN recommend · 2016–2020
1 mo on HN

The artificial gravity lab

Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2022–2025