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I inflated giant stretch toys with water until they burst

A fun experiment pushing giant stretch toys to the limit by filling them with water to see how big they can get before the ...
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Kids’ Toys from Cable Reels: Creative DIY Ideas That Turn Wood Scraps into Real Play Worlds

Some materials look completely unremarkable at first glance — and then turn out to be a genuine treasure chest for creative ...
Electronic Design

This Week in PowerBites: Amateur Physicist Exploits, “Electric” Airshows, and SiC/GaN Advances

Beyond innovative power products, this edition features a heartwarming tale of a young scientist conducting amateur ...

AI trained like a Rubik's Cube solver simplifies particle physics equations

For years, Rutgers physicist David Shih solved Rubik's Cubes with his children, twisting the colorful squares until the ...

How a blind man made it possible for others with low vision to build Lego sets

Matthew Shifrin loved building Lego sets as a child. But since he's blind, he relied on others for help. That changed at 13 ...
NPR

Drowning in toys? Here’s how to handle kid clutter

Having kids comes with a lot of clutter - some of it even shows up before your baby does. From toys that overflow from the toy chest, to unwanted hand-me-downs and the piles of art your kids make, you ...
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Micro planets sound like a toy idea — until the physics starts looking serious

What if we built entire planets around tiny black holes? Explore engineered micro worlds, artificial gravity, and the future of compact megastructures. Automatic registration for US military draft to ...
Nature

Elusive ‘nuclear clocks’ tick closer to reality — after decades in the making

Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy transitions in the nuclei of atoms and could become the most precise clock on ...