Articles by

Rhett Allain

You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor

Happy Pi Day! March 14 is the date that otherwise rational people celebrate this irrational number, because...

How Can a Locomotive Pull a Long Train That’s Much Heavier?

Have you ever watched a mile-long freight train rumble by and wondered how one locomotive can pull...

Could AI Data Centers Be Moved to Outer Space?

Data centers are being built at a frantic pace all over the world, driven by the AI...

How to Use Physics to Escape an Ice Bowl

I don't know who invented this crazy challenge, but the idea is to put someone in a...

How Does the Hive Mind Work in ‘Pluribus?

You know what’s great about a show like Pluribus? It’s that we don’t really know what’s going...

Could You Use a Rowboat to Walk on the Seafloor Like Jack Sparrow?

In the original Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner escape Port Royal by...

How Do Astronomers Find Planets in Other Solar Systems?

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet...

How to Measure the Earth’s Radius With Legos

More than 2,000 years ago, pretty much every educated human knew the Earth was round. There are...