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The Action Lab

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989 videos · 31 shorts · once a week

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The Sun Is the Wrong Color

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This Ring of Plasma Could Change the World

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Why the Universe Forbids Perfect Balance

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Virtual Particles: The Particles That Aren’t Real

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Can You Cook a Chicken by Shaking It?

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CERN Built the Opposite of an Atomic Bomb

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This Strange Wave Changed Physics Forever

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The Weird Connection Between Saliva and Quantum Physics

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I Charged My Phone With a Candle

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The Night Sky Should Be Brighter Than the Sun

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The Robot Hand That Can Grab Anything

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I Tried the World's Strangest Fireworks

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Why Freezing Things Keeps Them From Freezing

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I Tested the Limits of Friction and Found a Paradox

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This Engine Runs On Sunlight

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I Made The World's First Self-Cooling Clothes

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What Happens When You Let the Air Out?

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How Newton’s Bucket Changed Physics Forever

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The Strange Physics Behind the Oberth Effect

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This Tiny Engine Explains Entropy

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Gravity Assists Are Basically Free Energy

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How To Eliminate Gravity

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The Hourglass Paradox Nobody Agrees On

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I Broke The Angle of Repose

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This Simple Wave Explains Quantum Mechanics

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I Built Feynman's Reverse Sprinkler To Solve a 140 Year Old Mystery

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The Weirdest Result of Relativity You’ve Never Heard Of

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What Is The Speed of Surface Tension?

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The Weird Physics of Adding Cream to Coffee

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How Salt Fingering Helps The Oceans

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How Can Something Fall Faster Than Gravity?

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This Laser Can Hear You Talk

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This Ice Cream Trick Feels Impossible

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How Does Light Spin Without Spinning?

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We Just Discovered Why Light Does This

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An Optical Navigation System Better Than GPS

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The Accidental Discovery That Changed Physics

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Why AC Electricity Doesn’t Behave the Way You Think

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Is The Sum Of All Positive Numbers Really -1/12?

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The Strange Limit of Frictionless Motion

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The Hidden Danger Inside Every Candle

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The Mystery Of The Chirping Balls

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How Does Bent Time Make Gravity?

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The Mystery Einstein Couldn’t Solve: The Mott Problem

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The Chemical That Turns Everything Black

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Do What The Fire Says…

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Can A Burning Bush Talk In Real Life?

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Why Is This Liquid Attracted To Blood??

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Why Pulleys Are Weirder Than You Think

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Why Do Grains Defy Gravity?

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Add This To Water To Make It Not Splash!

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Chickens Are Weirder Than You Thought

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Only Geniuses Can Solve This Buoyancy Riddle

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Can Power Lines Really Light a Bulb in Your Hand?

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Do People Actually Jump Farther While Holding Weights?

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Scientists Just Found Why Electrified Drops DON'T Splash

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Volumetric 3D Printing Is REALLY FAST

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Is The Wobbly Table Theorem Ever Wrong?

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Why Don't Liquids Splash In a Vacuum?

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Is a Three-Sided Coin Possible?

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This Device Shrinks Objects in Real Life

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This Liquid Freezes Around Magnets

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The Experiment That Proved Static Electricity Has a Memory

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Can You Cook Food With Heat Pipes?

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Can Opening the Refrigerator REALLY Cool Down Your Room? (Midea Duo smart inverter portable AC)

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The Weird Science of Cold Balls

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Can You Fill a Shape That Has No Inside?

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The bounciest ball

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Can You See X-Rays In a Cloud Chamber?

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How to Convert Mass into Energy at Home

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What If You Actually Had Eyes in the Back of Your Head?

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Can You Control Lightning with Sound?

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This Is What It Looks Like When Atoms Collide

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The Strange Physics of Spinning Pancakes

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Breathing Through The World's Longest Snorkel (With the Beatbot Auquasense 2 Ultra)

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This Material Gets Bigger When You Squish It

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How Much Liquid Nitrogen Would It Take to Freeze a Terminator?

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Do Electrons Really Have "Intrinsic" Angular Momentum?

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The Experiment That Proved Atoms Are Mostly Empty Space

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The Strange Magnetism of Bismuth: It Shouldn’t Work, But It Does

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Your Smartphone Can Make 3D Holograms!

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Is Fire Conductive Enough To Get Shocked?

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How Glass Breaks All the Rules of Insulation

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Drinking The World's Highest Pressure Soda

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Poisson's Spot on The Darkest Ball In The World

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How To Shine Light Through Solid Metal

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A feather and a cube fall at the same rate

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The Evaporation Problem That Most People Get Wrong (3i S10 Ultra)

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Newton’s Cradle Doesn’t Work the Way You Think

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Throwing a -346°F Snowball Made of Solid Nitrogen

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Opening a bottle of liquid nitrogen under water

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How This Autonomous Liquid Metal Finds Its Way Through Mazes

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Can a Red-Hot Mirror Still Reflect an Image?

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How Hot is Light? How Lasers Bend the Rules of Heat Transfer

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The World's First Omnidirectional Screen

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This Ancient Technology Makes Things Spin Really Fast!

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Diamond vs Lava

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Why Do Some Liquids Flow Up? The Mysteries of Shear-Thinning Fluids

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The Secret Behind the World’s Fastest Card Thrower

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How Superconductors Turn Matter Into Waves