It's a childhood toy that we have probably all seen - but watch it in slow-motion, and the Slinky appears to defy the laws of physics. Veritasium.org, a site which wants to share the wonders of ...

You know the Slinky, but have you ever wondered how it walks down stairs, or why it appears to hang in midair when dropped? Scientists have peered into these phenomena for decades, but now a Princeton ...

When you drop a Slinky, what falls to the ground first: the top, the bottom, or everything all at once? Derek Muller, who created the popular YouTube channel Veritasium, first took on this puzzling ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It looked like a magic trick and enthralled children that Christmas in 1945 in Philadelphia. It was a metal spring, called a Slinky, ...

Explore the phenomenon of acceleration due to gravity with the slinky collapse in this engaging science blog explanation. Were you correct? I'm proud to say I figured out what would happen, and even ...

If you haven't seen any of Joerg's videos from The SlingShot Channel, you are really missing out. Joerg loves rubber bands and making awesome (and sometimes deadly) slingshots. In this video, he ...

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You have to see it to believe it: Slinkies look crazy not just tumbling down stairs but in free fall. In a new video, YouTube's favorite Slow Mo Guys capture the puzzling dynamics of the iconic toy at ...

There are few sights more satisfying than watching a Slinky descend a flight of stairs, and lining the toy up just right to walk down every step elicits the same feeling as sinking a three-pointer, a ...