This is a video of Action Lab’s James Orgill dropping a steel ball and ping-pong ball on one of the world’s bounciest surfaces to see how long they’ll bounce for. James says the surface has a coefficient of restitution (the ratio of the final to initial relative velocity between two

This is another Action Lab Shorts video starring James Orgill, this time firing a Nerf projectile backwards from a moving car traveling forward the same speed forwards (around 55MPH) to see if the bullet will just fall to the ground. The answer? Yes. James also sounds pretty stoked he was

This is a short security cam video from a small local airport starring a stationary, unpiloted, unpowered propeller plane taking off by itself due to high winds in the area. Anybody else pretend this was Rose from Titanic when it was happening? Good times. Unfortunately, no word how well the

This is short video of James Orgill of The Action Lab presenting a video from his more internet attention span appropriate channel Action Lab Shorts, featuring him repeatedly cutting water droplets in half with a razor blade that’s been treated with a superhydrophobic coating. Pretty neat, but *unsheathing blade, swinging

Science: it’s best done at home in front of your webcam. Case in point: Cody here of Youtube channel Cody’sLab first inhaling dense gas sulfur hexaflouride and talking so we can hear what that sounds like, then inhaling some perfluorobutane (a gas almost twice as dense as sulfur hexaflouride) and

This is a video of a machine that was created with one job and one job only: to balance a bowling ball on a spool without it rolling off either side, constantly adjusting itself to keep the ball right on top. Not bad, but if it can’t also hula hoop

Because going nowhere fast is a real thing that happens, this is a video of glider pilot Brent Davidson traveling at 46 knots (~53MPH) in an equal headwind of 46 knots created by an air wave lifted by a mountain range below, causing the glider to just float stationary in

Because experimenting is the key to a happy marriage, this is a video of James Orgill of The Action Lab trying to run off the back of a moving trailer at the same speed his wife is towing it forward to see if the two opposite motions will negate each