The Chinese navy is reportedly testing the planet’s most powerful coil gun – a type of electromagnetically powered weapon capable of launching projectiles with very high speed and accuracy. In a ...

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The film demonstrates an experiment using an apparatus to observe the behavior of electrons in a uniform magnetic field. It explains how electrons are accelerated by an electron gun and then deflected ...

A comic book fan has created a real life Spider-Man shooter that fires a fishing line instead of web fluid. Patrick Priebe, from Germany, used a modified coil gun and red and blue glove to recreate ...