Ping-pong balls have many uses: apart from playing table tennis, they have been used for countless art projects, science experiments, and even to raise ships from the bottom of the ocean. As it turns ...

Can a bunch of ping pong balls withstand the power of a supercharged blender? This experiment may not be quite as crazy as dropping 100,000 ping pong balls from arena rough like How Ridiculous did, ...

If ping-pong balls can float a sunken boat, they should be able to keep an uncrewed space capsule simulator from sinking. Right? That’s what a team of summer students and engineers think at NASA’s ...

If you’ve ever played ping pong, table tennis, or beer pong, you know that it’s a struggle to hang on to the balls. [MaximeMonsieur] has designed a robot to handle picking them up so you don’t have to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Tracking how far volcanic debris flies during an eruption, even a small, simulated blast filmed by powerful cameras, is not easy. It appears, though, that an international research ...

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 ...