The internet would be a far less awesome place to waste valuable hours at work were it not for the The Slow Mo Guys turning the mundane into the amazing with their high-speed camera. By itself a clump ...

Normally, oxidation is boring: You leave a wet steel wool scrubbing pad on your sink and a few days later you wind up with a rusty pad and a stain on your counter. But speed the oxidation up a bit—say ...

You know how there’s different levels to “Don’t try this at home”? One is absolutely not are you crazy you will die and the other is eh, I think it’s safe enough to do. Lighting steel wool on fire and ...

You may have seen burning steel wool create serious sparks before, but nothing compares to how it looks in slow motion. The Slow Mo Guys set sparks a' flying in this video, turning boring old steel ...

Those crazy cats at PhotoExtremist have put together this rather involved tutorial on how to make light paintings using steel wool. If you don’t want to watch all 8 minutes of the video, here’s the ...

For some background, the video first appeared on YouTube on December 27, 2019 and has, unfortunately, been viewed over 750,000 times. There are several things wrong with the video and tweet just from ...

Resembling a thousand sparklers on fire, this stunning image pits the shining Milky Way as a backdrop to the spinning landscape below. This unique method of photography is called steel wool spinning.