destruction

If you had access to a crash test facility, whenever you weren’t smashing cars you’d probably be spending all of…

A building implosion is a one-time thing; once a structure has been razed, there’s no resetting for a take two.…

What do you do if hungry raccoons are tearing your garbage to shreds every night? You can put locks on your cans, or…

You may have heard the Nintendo Switch has some problems. Some units have dead pixels, the Joy-Con controllers…

Inside nearly everything made of concrete, you’ll find reinforced steel rods that compress the material, making…

The technicians at Apple’s Genius Bars have been known to turn a blind eye to an iPhone with a cracked screen, or a…

When I was in elementary school, kids used to pass around printed out copies of The Anarchist’s Cookbook and we…

In 1992, my dad left his shoes on top of his car. He saw them an hour later on the feet of a guy walking down the…

Pretty much any lab-based destruction of colorful clay you could ask for is covered in this video. Freezing,…

When a hydraulic press takes on the bathroom, things get messy. First, the ceramic toilet completely explodes. Then,…

If you were looking for a USB stick that “instantly and permanently [disables] unprotected hardware,” you’re in…

Finding 116 excavators to demolish an aging 24-year-old overpass in just one night is all but impossible—unless you…

Earlier today, Samsung delayed shipments of its Galaxy Note 7, allegedly due to (unconfirmed) reports that the phone…

Remember your high school wood shop teacher’s non-stop litany about safety? Here’s a real-life example of why you…

The Slow Mo Guys have channeled their inner 10-year-olds for their latest high-speed experiment that involves…

The best science always involves explosions and destruction, and we probably would have paid closer attention to our…

We love the destruction video channels: hydraulic presses, waterjets, and slingshots. Now, Joerg Sprave, the guy…

Russia Works shot this aerial footage of Homs, Syria and the city, which was the third largest in the country and…

It’s a beautiful ballet, if you ask me. There’s a peacefulness to seeing things get destroyed in slow motion, it’s…

I smashed my phone last night. We’ve all done it. You miss a pocket or get a case of butterfingers and the next…