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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.
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2 mo on HNHovering a Helicopter is Hilariously Hard - Smarter Every Day 145
SmarterEveryDay
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
2 mo on HNFiring the Lorentz Plasma Cannon
LightningOnDemand
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNTesting if 60 minutes of silence drives you crazy
Veritasium
2 HN recommender · 2014–2019
2 mo on HNBTD10: The 835kph Sailplane and Dynamic Soaring
TNG Technology Consulting GmbH
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HNHow Do Bikes Stay Up?
minutephysics
2 HN recommender · 2016–2024
2 mo on HNTesla Valve Explained With Fire
NightHawkInLight
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021
2 mo on HNThe LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium
Technology Connections
2 HN recommender · 2018–2021
1 mo on HNThe Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies
Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HNDIY Scanning Electron Microscope - Overview
Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2015–2025
1 mo on HNThe Snowflake Myth
Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNIs 5G Spelling Our DOOM?! How EM Waves Can Hurt
ElectroBOOM
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNDangerous tattoo remover from eBay is a MILLION watt laser
styropyro
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNAir Conditioning isn't free... but we're close.
Tech Ingredients
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HNHow dangerous are magnetic items near an MRI magnet?
practiCal fMRI
1 HN recommend · 2011–2023
1 mo on HNlevitating frog
Graham McLeod
1 HN recommend · 2012–2014
1 mo on HNThe Universe is Hostile to Computers
Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2021–2024
1 mo on HNWhy is light slower in glass? - Sixty Symbols
Sixty Symbols
1 HN recommend · 2018–2021
1 mo on HNWhat if you swam in a nuclear storage pool?
xkcd's What If?
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNVisualizing 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 HNThe Original Double Slit Experiment
Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021
1 mo on HNHow anti-theft tags work - magnetostriction
Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2017–2020
1 mo on HNCan you fold paper more than 7 times with hydraulic press
Hydraulic Press Channel
1 HN recommend · 2016–2026
1 mo on HNLaser diode self-mixing: Range-finding and sub-micron vibration measurement
Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2019–2025
1 mo on HNSpace Shuttle Thermal Tile Demonstration
Roscket Tasartir
1 HN recommend · 2014–2023
1 mo on HNCYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford
Nigel John Stanford
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HN1 million fps Slow Motion video of bullet impacts made by Werner Mehl from Kurzzeit
Matt Rece
1 HN recommend · 2009–2023
1 mo on HNMechanical circuits: electronics without electricity
Steve Mould
1 HN recommend · 2022–2024
1 mo on HNOK Go – The One Moment – Official Video
OK Go
1 HN recommend · 2016–2026
1 mo on HNWhat salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and more
Explosions&Fire
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HNShockwave traffic jams recreated for first time
New Scientist
1 HN recommend · 2009–2026
1 mo on HNHow to Surface a Submarine in the Arctic Ocean - Smarter Every Day 260
SmarterEveryDay
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNImaging at a trillion frames per second | Ramesh Raskar
TED
1 HN recommend · 2012–2019
1 mo on HNTMS Bicycle, stable without gyros or trail (TMS=two-mass-skate)
Arend Schwab
2 HN recommender · 2013–2019
1 mo on HNThe artificial skylight that you won't believe isn't real
Lux Magazine
1 HN recommend · 2016–2020
1 mo on HNThe artificial gravity lab
Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2022–2025