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Invisible Ink: Invisible ink, sometimes called ‘sympathetic ink’, is a way of writing secret messages. Spies have used invisible inks to pass on secret messages, as have prisoners and… [1312 views in May]
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Why Oil and Water Don't Mix: Oil and water don’t mix – they are described as ‘immiscible’. Crude oil floats on the sea after a spill from a tanker. Motor oil shows up as a sheen on… [1024 views in May]
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Facts About Bacteria and Viruses: Bacteria and viruses are often confused with each other, but they are very different. Bacteria are usually harmless and viruses are usually harmful,… [906 views in May]
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Facts About Insects and Minibeasts: ‘Minibeast’ is the collective name for many small animals, including spiders, slugs and snails, worms, insects, centipedes and many other things.… [816 views in May]
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Facts About Fungi, Mushrooms and Toadstools: Fungi (singular is ‘fungus’) are not plants or animals but are in a separate kingdom. Fungi Facts Mushrooms are the fruit of some… [524 views in May]
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Making an Emulsion: Oil and water are described as immiscible liquids – liquids that do stay mixed together (see ‘Why Oil and Water Don't Mix’). Even if oil and water are thoroughly… [446 views in May]
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- Biology
- Do Plants Breathe?
- Extracting DNA
- Finding and Watching Mites
- Finding Flowers and Trees
- Grow Apples or Tomatoes in Bottles
- Growing Plants in Different Soils
- Growing Plants Without Soil
- How Potatoes Begin: Grow Your Own Chips
- How Seeds Grow
- How Strong is an Eggshell?
- Keep an Ant Colony (Formicarium)
- Knowing Which Way is Up & Finding the Light
- Make a Rubber Band from a Dandelion
- Make Yoghurt and Grow Yeast
- Map Your Sense of Touch
- Seeds: Wet and Dry
- Testing Paper for Strength
- The Science of Making Cheese
- Watching Minibeasts
- Water & Food: How Plants Eat and Drink
- What's in a Seed?
- Chemistry
- A Bending Bone
- Acids and Alkalis: Making Gases
- Acids and Alkalis: Which Are Which?
- Breaking Down Colours: What's in Your Pen
- Cleaning Tarnish Off Silver: Bicarbonate and Aluminium
- Green Coins or Shiny Ones? Oxidation of Copper
- Growing Crystals
- Ice Cream: Colloidal Chemistry
- Invisible Ink
- Make a Soda Fountain
- Making an Emulsion
- Making Hot Ice
- Making Polymers: Cornflour Slime and Silly Putty
- Soap and Detergent Chemistry
- Soft and Hard Water: Making More Bubbles
- The Science of Making Butter
- Why Oil and Water Don't Mix
- Environment & Meteorology
- Bottling a Tornado
- Condensation and Dew
- Cooking With the Sun
- Desalination of Water
- Looking at Soil Profiles
- Make Your Own El Nino
- Making a Rainbow: Breaking Light Into Colour
- Making a Sundial
- Making Biospheres, Ecospheres and Bottle Gardens
- Melting Ice and Rising Sea Levels
- Monitoring the Weather
- Seeing Soil Erosion
- The Science of Recycling
- Tracking Sunspots Across the Sun
- Watching Clouds
- What Colour is the Sky?
- What is Sand?
- When the Wind Blows: Making a Wind Vane
- Facts, Figures & Trivia
- Maths
- A Fractal Pattern
- Calculating Pi
- Get Knotted: Learn About Topology
- How Many Surfaces? Making a M�bius Strip
- How Tall is It? Measure Something Tall Without Climbing It
- How to Multiply on Your Fingers
- Make a Right Angle With Knots and String
- Measuring Slopes: Make a Clinometer
- Proving 1=2 and 2=3
- Reading People's Minds
- Shapes: Looking at Tessellation
- The Golden Section
- Physics
- Action and Reaction: Balloons in Flight
- Bending Light: Disappearing Glass Bowl and Bending Pencil
- Detecting Fake Silver: Conductivity of Metal
- Floating and Sinking: Looking at Density
- Friction: Keeping Warm and Keeping Rolling
- Growing Stalactites and Stalagmites
- Keeping Warm or Cold: Insulation and Conduction
- Make a Vacuum Cleaner
- Melting Points for Different Solids
- Pulling and Pushing: Magnetic Attraction
- Seeing Ultraviolet Light: Tonic Water in Sunlight
- Solids, Liquids and Gases: Ice, Water and Steam
- Static Electricity: Making Things Stick
- Surface Tension: Keeping Bubbles Round and Insects Up
- The Physics of Bubbles
- Vibrations: Seeing and Feeling Sound
- Warm and Cold: Expanding Air
- Warm and Cold: Heavy Water
- Psychology
- Encouraging Children
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