Filmed at the University of Melbourne’s swimming pool, Todd Sampson uses the laws of physics to dramatic effect Water molecules are packed much more tightly together than air molecules and therefore ...

Apart from both being propelled by explosions of one form or another, bullets and cars share a handful of design similarities. It's all due to aerodynamics.

St. Louis Cardinals games are already a pretty horrible experience, but this week, things went to a pretty terrifying level. A woman in the stands at the Cardinals-Brewers Tuesday was hit with a stray ...

Many physicists will happily tell you that the universe is primarily made up of a substance called dark matter, but ask for a definite answer on why we haven't directly glimpsed it yet and you would ...

In the MythBusters Bullet Baloney episode, a variety of bullet myths were tested. Each myth has some interesting physics but there is some hidden physics in this episode also. Let's take a look at ...

Yes. I just posted about MythBusters. However, I thought this would be an appropriate time to also talk about the physics involved with the "shoot the merry go round" myth. The basic idea of the myth ...

Old smoothbore guns, which were loaded with bullets that looked more like balls than torpedoes, had an effective range of about sixty yards. A relatively small engineering change, which took its lead ...

Not barehanded. But if you had a piece of metal the same size and weight of the gun that fired it, could you catch it with your hand? This conversation springs from Counter Strike. In CS nowadays ...

No matter how many times you’ve seen the movies and the TV shows that have a protagonist leaping in the path of a bullet, physics forbids such sacrifice. This article was published in Scientific ...