Nothing says awesome more than a picture of Nikola Tesla with a lightning gun and a pigeon. It's the ultimate mad science statement, and it's only $6.

Note to self: DO NOT PLAY WITH POWER LINES.

A bell has been ringing at Oxford for nearly two hundred years. Because no one is willing to stop the bell, and the demonstration that it represents, no one knows the exact mechanism that's making it ring. Learn of the mysteries of the Oxford Electric Bell.

Ever notice a light, a stereo, or other electrical appliance monotonously humming at you? Of course you have. We’ll tell you why it happens. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Pratt student Melanie Hoff was curious to know what would happen to a sheet of wood when blasted with 15,000 volts of electricity. So, she decided to run the experiment — with the results being something quite unexpected. Rather than causing it to catch fire or blow up, the electricity created intricate fractal…

In early twentieth century America, the craze for new and futuristic devices was going at full tilt. Instead of lusting after the latest Nexus, you'd crave the latest electrified refrigerator or radio for your home. Here are a few of the items that enraptured people in the 1920s and 30s who were seeking high tech…

What happens when you discharge a 4,500 Volt capacitor into a bucket of copper sulfate? Apparently you raise the spirit of Cthulhu. He just happened to come back to us in the form of a tentacled ball of plasma. Copper sulfate (CuSO4), is a copper atom, a sulfur atom, and four oxygen atoms. Plasma happens when either…

Holy crap this is excellent. Many of you are probably familiar with the intimidating crackle and flash of electricity-generating Tesla coils — but watch what happens when you combine them with wearable suits that behave like Faraday cages. It's like watching a shootout between Raiden and Emperor Palpatine.

Benjamin Franklin is famous for his experiment with a key and a kite — but that's not his only lightning innovation. The famous inventor loved lightning so much, he actually invented a kind of alarm system to let him know when a thunderstorm was about to kick off.

See Don Pettit play with LEGOs! See him make sparks! See him make a block of styrofoam orbit a Van de Graaff generator like a little square planet! See it — and remember for the billionth time why nerds in space are awesome.