If ping-pong balls can float a sunken boat, they should be able to keep an uncrewed space capsule simulator from sinking. Right? That’s what a team of summer students and engineers think at NASA’s ...

Ping-pong balls have many uses: apart from playing table tennis, they have been used for countless art projects, science experiments, and even to raise ships from the bottom of the ocean. As it turns ...

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Whether you want to play ping pong professionally, for fun, or simply just use the balls for party games, there are plenty of options for you to wade through. From tournament grade balls to ...

It is a common situation in electronics to have a control loop, that is some sort of feedback that drives the input to a system such as a motor or a heater based upon a sensor to measure something ...

Set the hair dryer on the cool and high setting. Turn it on and point it upward. Carefully put the ping-pong ball in the stream of air. That step may take a little practice, but don't give up! Hold ...

In the spirit of community outreach and STEM education, I have been volunteering with high schoolers for the past six years in an extracurricular program where we have the students prototype and then ...

Table tennis is one of the most intense quick-reaction sports in the world, but not so much -- it turns out -- if you're trying to play in space. Astronaut Scott Kelly celebrated his 300th day in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. At the end of the 19th century, when ...