As [James] found out, though, it works best if your objects — ping pong balls, in his case — are conductive. He wanted to add a Van de Graaff generator to add to his “great ball machine ...

Enter the “Pongsat” program – space experiments within a ping pong ball. Created by JP Aerospace, this free program allows anyone to create their own mini experiment and send it off to the ...

Description: A chain reaction is simulated by an array of armed mouse traps loaded with ping pong balls. 42 mouse traps are mounted on a piece of plywood in a 6 by 7 array. Two ping pong balls may be ...

For a 'street science' experiment I approached holidaymakers with a ping-pong ball and a funnel, to show them a classic and counterintuitive science demonstration. It involves something known as ...