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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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1 mo on HNIon drive: The first flight
nature video
1 HN recommend · 2018–2022
1 mo on HNYour toothbrush is worn-out!
Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HNThe moiré effect lights that guide ships home
Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2024–2026
1 mo on HNamazing starlings murmuration (full HD) -www.keepturningleft.co.uk
raisingmaggie
1 HN recommend · 2013–2022
1 mo on HNAlvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room
TrilobiteJuice
1 HN recommend · 2016–2023
1 mo on HNThe Extreme World of Ultra Intense Lasers - with Kate Lancaster
The Royal Institution
1 HN recommend · 2018–2020
1 mo on HNHypercentric optics: A camera lens that can see behind objects
Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2022–2026
1 mo on HN[593] Gallium vs. Titalium - Abus Padlock Meets a Gruesome End
LockPickingLawyer
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNOptical illusions show how we see | Beau Lotto
TED
1 HN recommend · 2017–2023
1 mo on HNThe pilot-wave dynamics of walking droplets
MITMathLab
1 HN recommend · 2016–2017
1 mo on HNReveal Invisible Motion With This Clever Video Trick
Steve Mould
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNMaking YBCO superconductor
Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNThe Surprising Secret of Synchronization
Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2021–2021
1 mo on HNExperiment: Coca Cola and Drain Cleaner
Home Science
1 HN recommend · 2020–2021
1 mo on HNThe Weird World in RGB
Technology Connections
1 HN recommend · 2020–2021
1 mo on HNHow to Make/Build a Lifter or Ionocraft
RimstarOrg
1 HN recommend · 2016–2022
1 mo on HNFeynman: How the train stays on the track FUN TO IMAGINE 7
Christopher Sykes
1 HN recommend · 2013–2022
0 mo on HNControlled Demonstration of a Tank Trailer Vacuum Collapse by Wabash National
Wabash (NYSE: WNC)
0 HN recommender · 2018–2023
0 mo on HNThe Glass Age, Part 1: Flexible, Bendable Glass
Corning Incorporated
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HNSuperheating of water (Mythbusters)
Caramthros
0 HN recommender · 2020–2022
0 mo on HNBullet vs Prince Rupert's Drop at 150,000 fps - Smarter Every Day 165
SmarterEveryDay
0 HN recommender · 2017–2025
0 mo on HNNew World Record RC Airplane Speed 548mph
sll914
0 HN recommender · 2023–2024
0 mo on HNWhy all solar panels are secretly LEDs (and all LEDs are secretly solar panels)
Steve Mould
0 HN recommender · 2022–2024
0 mo on HNchernobyl 2013: radioactive ant bites & 115 mSv/h of pure gamma radiation
bionerd23
0 HN recommender · 2015–2016
0 mo on HNFilming the Speed of Light at 10 Trillion FPS
The Slow Mo Guys
0 HN recommender · 2019–2025
0 mo on HNDelta P
Sean Roos
0 HN recommender · 2016–2024
0 mo on HNSynchronization of Metronomes
Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations
0 HN recommender · 2017–2025
0 mo on HNNew Laser Zaps Mosquitoes in SlowMotion | National Geographic
National Geographic
0 HN recommender · 2021–2022
0 mo on HNShepard Tone
J_II
0 HN recommender · 2020–2022
0 mo on HNNegative Ion/Anti-5g Products Are Actually RADIOACTIVE
The Thought Emporium
0 HN recommender · 2020–2025
0 mo on HNWorld's Second Best Speakers!
Tech Ingredients
0 HN recommender · 2021–2025
0 mo on HNRC KFC bucket aeroplane (magnus effect)
PeterSripol
0 HN recommender · 2018–2022
0 mo on HNSpace Suit Testing
NaOHKDBO
0 HN recommender · 2015–2019
0 mo on HNWaterseer -BUSTED!
Thunderf00t
0 HN recommender · 2017–2021
0 mo on HNDrinking Heavy Water
Cody'sLab
0 HN recommender · 2017–2024
0 mo on HNFASTEST RC AIRPLANE IN THE WORLD! Transonic DP -- 545mph!!
sll914
0 HN recommender · 2018–2020