If you’ve ever installed a backyard bird feeder in hopes of peacefully observing your fine feathered friends, you’re…

Mark Rober, a former NASA JPL engineer, recently teamed up with James Bruton, an ex-toy designer and all-around…

You can try as hard as you want, but you’ll never be as cool an uncle as ex-NASA JPL engineer Mark Rober. Using…

The prizes, the lights, the sounds, and a quick-talking barker make it hard to resist playing carnival games, but is…

Last summer, Mark Rober built the world’s largest Nerf dart gun, capable of blasting foam at 40 mph. Sure, that…

Mark Rober, who we last saw engineering a dart board that guaranteed a bullseye with every throw, has just built…

A night at a local pub isn’t complete without a few rounds of darts, but as your blood-alcohol level rises, your…

If you crossed a Super Soaker with a paintball gun, you’d get this wild creation from our friend Mark Rober: a crazy…

There’s nothing quite like using the scientific method to figure out what’s happening in a silly party trick that…

Would you sink or float if you were tossed into a gigantic vat of squishy gelatinous spheres, more popularly known…

Every child and every adult who wants to be a child again loves a good Nerf gun. They’re fun to shoot, whether…

Here’s how you spend a good summer day: find a giant trampoline, fill up 1,500 water balloons, and then bounce…

YouTube scientist Mark Rober and molten metal obsessive BackyardScientist teamed up to answer a simple question: is…

Using a football field, a drone, some peas, a few pepper flakes, grapes, and some people playing soccer, Mark Rober…

It’s winter. If you drive a car that’s parked outside, you know what that means. It’s frigid as hell inside your car…

The problem is simple enough. You’ve got a raw egg, and it’s going to be dropped from a high place. You have to…

After watching this video I feel like the best microwave I've ever used sucked very badly. What you see here is a…

Last year, our pal (and former NASA JPL engineer) Mark Rober whipped up the first digital ugly Christmas sweater.…

Proving that sometimes all it takes is a popular YouTube video to kickstart a successful business, Mark Rober, the…

Thermal cameras were once expensive and bulky hunks of equipment that very few people could get their hands on. No…