Antacids fizz and bubble much more violently in space than on the ground, as astronaut Scott Kelly recently demonstrated with a floating ball of fizz. Taking one of these in space would probably ...

A team of international scientists co-led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a ...

We had a lot of fun with that title. Of course when you’re talking about launching a thousand ping pong balls into space there’s no end to the puns which can be made. But this is actually a ...

This is a large white floating ball that has LEDs inside and cycles through different colors. Meant to be put into a pool for neat effects, we found it to be much more interesting just used around ...

Place a ball on top of the vacuum cleaner. Turn on the vacuum. Notice that the ball is floating in the air. Replace the ball with a different-sized ball or a plastic bottle. Try floating two styrofoam ...

Researchers manipulated water waves to move ping pong balls with a level of precision that seems straight out of a sci-fi movie.

Some patterns acted like tweezers or a 'tractor beam' to hold a floating ball in place. Other patterns made the ball spin and move precisely in a circular path. In the future, the technique could ...