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Topic: speed
The ‘Swiss Army knife’ legs of a house centipede
So. Many. Legs. Thirty legs arranged in a fluttery burst-like arrangement. This is the Scutigera coleoptrata, a house centipede. And though some may think they're creepy or gross, or dangerous to humans (they're not),...
Hawk moths and The Art of Staying Stable
Like a hummingbird or a creature from a Hayao Miyazaki film, hawk moths or Sphingidae, are a family of large insects with the magical-looking mastery of hovering in midair. They can also fly backward and keep incredib...
The secrets of citrus micro-jets, captured in high speed
Peel an orange or a lime and then bend a section of fruit until the liquids squirt from the skin at 30 feet per second. At what point did the skin give way? Where did the micro-jets shoot? Why did the skin of citrus f...
Solving a Rubik’s Cube in 0.38 seconds
In November of 2016, the world record for a robot solving a Rubik's Cube was .637 seconds, but as of March 2018, that record appears to have been broken. The ridiculously speedy robot above, built by Ben Katz and Jare...
Anatomy of a hunt: Speed, strategy and survival
As predators chase down their prey on the open savanna it’s a race for survival. Lions and cheetahs are some of the most athletic animals on the planet but strength and speed aren’t everything. By precisely measuring ...
Dance & the physics of rotation – PBS Kids’ What’s Good
Dance, twirl, flip, extend, spin, twist, leap, defy gravity and get to know the science of movement that drives it all. Breakdancers B-Girl Eren and Tori Torsion talk about why they love to dance, and how practice, ha...
The record-breaking tongue lashing of the chameleon
It’s no secret that chameleons possess remarkable tongues. Aristotle first described the breathtaking speed of chameleon tongue projection around 300 B.C. But the tongue lashings these lizards deliver to unsuspecting ...
Frames of Mind: Tricks visualized by freestyle mountain biker Matt Jones
Freestyle mountain biker Matt Jones visualizes his incredible MTB tricks with the help of rotoscoping, keying, and luma keying techniques—"'cutting around' Matt and his bike mid trick to insert in the same shot in rea...
How a kingfisher, an owl, & a penguin helped redesign Japan’s Shinkansen
How is Japan’s Shinkansen, a long-nosed bullet train that travels up to 240–320 km/h (150–200 mph), like a kingfisher? Or an owl? Or an Adélie penguin? In this video from Vox and 99% Invisible, we see how these three ...
Go-Kart Racing With the Emirati Speed Sisters
As the first female pro go-kart drivers in the UAE, sisters Amna and Hamda Al Qubaisi are breaking barriers, busting myths and beating the boys. Inspired by their father—pro racer Khaled Al Qubaisi—the girls decided t...
Secrets of Schooling: Investigating the collective behavior of fish
Collective behavior is embodied in swarms of insects, flocks of birds, herds of antelope, and schools of fish. In each of these cases, individuals move through their environment and respond to threats and opportunitie...
Why peregrine falcons are the fastest animals on earth
Peregrine falcons are the fastest animals of the land—and it's no wonder, their bodies are built for speed. While cheetahs can run up to 70 mph on land, peregrine falcons can dive at speed of over 200 mph. That's fast...
The incredible sport of cup stacking, explained
Sport stacking (also called cup stacking and speed stacking) may look pretty straight forward -- upstacking and downstacking x-number of cups in a certain order as fast as possible -- but it's the millisecond improvem...
Two professors sculpt each other in less than ten minutes
Watch in real time as Professor Cao Chang Xu of Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and Professor Sarath Chandrajeewa of Sri Lanka's University of Visual and Performing Arts go head to head in a friendly fac...
What’s the fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf?
You work at the college library. You’re in the middle of a quiet afternoon when suddenly, a shipment of 1,280 books arrives. The books are in a straight line, but they're all out of order, and the automatic sorting sy...
The Snail-Smashing, Fish-Spearing, Eye-Popping Mantis Shrimp
The mantis shrimp is a fascinating creature. One kind impales prey with a spear-like appendage and another smashes prey with a built-in club — the fastest attack in the animal kingdom. "At 30 times faster than the bli...
A Formula 1 Pit Stop Explained
Have you seen the video of Ferrari’s F1 pit crew doing a pit stop in around two seconds? Even after watching it multiple times, it can be a challenge to understand how a team of nearly 20 people can work so quickly an...
Slingshots of the Oceanic
There are many ways of moving through the Universe – of traveling from one point to another over great, even extraordinary distances. There is also a way of using the world for your own ends: taking advantage of slope...
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