Next time you’re in a Nerf gun battle, you better hope you’ve got this absurdly powerful ping pong ball gun. It shoots common celluloid spheres at over 400 meters per second, or Mach 1.2. This ping ...

In the waiting rooms of some dentists or doctors, you might have seen a giant metal ball rolling around in a large glass case. While it sure beats looking through those magazines, the sculpture can’t ...

This is Harold Stokes from BYU and he made a ping-pong ball cannon. Here is his very entertaining demonstration. It's a little long, but a great presentation. How does this work? The basic idea is to ...

In case you were wondering, a ping pong ball can certainly blast a hole through a ping pong paddle; it just needs to travel at 900 miles per hour. Physics swag. Gizmodo spotted a video of Purdue ...

In the spirit of community outreach and STEM education, I have been volunteering with high schoolers for the past six years in an extracurricular program where we have the students prototype and then ...