Scientists Have Discovered That Hard Coral Likes Eating Plastic Because It’s Tasty To Them. More Research

Under our skin.

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Weekend Project: Do Osmosis with Food

Osmosis is the movement of water across semi-permeable membrane. Experiment with eggs to demonstrate the process of water transport into and out of cells. Get started here!

When you have some dry ice hanging around in your office...

We had some leftover dry ice in our office, so we spent all afternoon playing with it.

In water:

Making a tornado:

Making ice scream (turn on the sound to hear it!)

and inflating balloons (there’s a little nugget of dry ice inside the balloon here):

Students designed this solar-powered car that can travel 600 miles fully-charged

This is a homopolar motor.

It’s really easy to experiment with at home. It is driven by the Lorentz force - the force which is exerted by a magnetic field on a moving electric charge. When a battery is placed on top of a magnet, and a wire then connects the top of the battery back down to the magnet, the circuit is complete.

Students in our Summer Schools were making these the other day. This one won the ‘most creative design’ competition <3

Poor virus feels left out! 

How To Make A Rocket For Less Than A Dollar

You can use sugar and kitty litter to make a rocket that shoots up over 2,300 feet (700 meters). And it cost less than $0.50 to make. Learn how: http://bit.ly/1G0hn8O

A magnet being sucked into a grinned scrap of metal

How To Make A Rocket For Less Than A Dollar

You can use sugar and kitty litter to make a rocket that shoots up over 2,300 feet (700 meters). And it cost less than $0.50 to make. Learn how: http://bit.ly/1G0hn8O

The Solar Experiments | No. 1 Solar Updraft

Making breakthroughs in renewable energy technologies takes some serious creative energy. Future scientists, take some inspiration from this pinwheeling solar windowsill gadget. All you need is paper, aluminum foil, a lampshade and some household tools. Find that great big ball in the sky and voilà— a solar twist on wind energy to keep those inventive wheels turning.