Though they look like jellyfish or space creatures, these images from photographer Linden Gledhill are actually explosions. What you’re seeing is the detonation of hydrogen gas with oxygen. The teal Keep reading
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Exploding a Drop
Leidenfrost drops levitate over a hot substrate on a thin layer of their own vapor, constantly replenished as the drop evaporates. For the most part, previous studies have focused on Keep reading
Lava Bomb
What you see above is a homemade lava bomb. To systematically study what happens when groundwater meets lava, scientists melted basalt and created their own meter-scale explosion-on-demand. Inside the container, Keep reading
Kilauea’s Lava Lake
Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano continues to erupt, sending magma flowing through multiple fissures. The U.S. Geological Survey has sounded a warning, however, that the volcano could erupt more explosively. Hot spot Keep reading
Icy Spikes
Water is one of those strange materials that expands when it freezes, which raises an interesting question: what happens to a water drop that freezes from the outside in? A Keep reading
Battery Rockets
When I post Slow Mo Guys videos, it often comes with a warning not to try this at home. For their latest video, that deserves an extra-special mention: seriously, don’t Keep reading
Underwater Explosions in Slow Mo
The Slow Mo Guys bring their high-speed skills to underwater explosions in this new video. The physics of such explosions is very neat (but also incredibly destructive). When the fuse Keep reading
Quarry Smashing
Despite appearances, this is not a crashing ocean wave. In fact, it’s a planned explosion at a quarry, and that wave is more than 360,000 tons of rock and 68 Keep reading
When Lasers Strike
Lasers are a great way to deliver a lot of energy very quickly. In this animation, you see a jet of water get struck by a pulse from a powerful Keep reading
Underwater Explosions
Underwater explosions are incredibly dangerous and destructive, and this animation shows you why. What you see here are three balloons, each half-filled with water and half with air. A small Keep reading