Looking for a neat trick to do with your Tesla coil? [The Action Lab] uses his coil to make a metal plasma — in particular, sodium. You can see the results in the video below. To create a metal plasma ...

Think of a Gatling gun and you may think of your favorite first-person shooter, that scene from Terminator 2 where the T-800 messes up a whole fleet of squad cars, or the American Civil War, which ...

To investigate the electrical realm of high-frequency and high-voltage, Tesla invented an apparatus that pushed the limits of electrical understanding. None of the circuit's typical components were ...

Nikola Tesla was a visionary thinker, making experiments which still aren't fully understood today. But even the inventor of AC current wouldn't have foreseen this Flash Gordon style wireless plasma ...

What music wouldn't be more enjoyable if you just added several thousand volts of arcing, ozone-crackling electricity? The band/science experiment ArcAttack channels music through large Tesla coils or ...