When we were all little kids, our earliest “science is cool” discoveries usually revolve around magnets. After all, everyone had a magnet or two lying around their house. For that kid in us all, the ...

Magnets aren’t magic, but sometimes you can do things with them to fool the uninitiated — like levitating. [Jonathan Lock] does that with his new maglev desk toy, that looks like at least a level 2 ...

When it comes to exploiting physics with a toy that spins, you can get a get a pretty crazy performance out of something as simple as a wooden top. But if a top that stands on its head isn't quite ...