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January's Most Popular Articles...
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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… [4814 views in Jan]
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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,… [2084 views in Jan]
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Do Memory Techniques Work?: Sometimes it seems that there are so many things to remember, especially when it’s coming close to exams, and it would be great to have something that… [1144 views in Jan]
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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… [992 views in Jan]
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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… [934 views in Jan]
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How Tall is It? Measure Something Tall Without Climbing It: The most accurate way to measure something is using a tape measure, but some things are too tall (or too scary) to… [898 views in Jan]
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Latest Comments
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Rosienana
Re: Facts About Fungi, Mushrooms and Toadstools
I am homeschooling my granddaughter and she loves 'experiments'. We began with water play in the lavatory. Now…
28 November 2014 -
MARK
Re: Making Biospheres, Ecospheres and Bottle Gardens
i have an ecosphere with one live shrimp that has been living in it for about 20 years. I would like to…
24 November 2014 -
ScienceProjectIdeas
Re: Facts About Fungi, Mushrooms and Toadstools
@Avanelle. Mould is how we spell it here in the UK...it's just one of those funny differences between us and…
15 October 2014 -
Avanelle
Re: Facts About Fungi, Mushrooms and Toadstools
It was kind of funny how it misspelled mold and put mould, but it still helped
15 October 2014 -
tater
Re: Facts About Bacteria and Viruses
this was really helpful it really heaped me out
1 October 2014 -
Yuri
Re: Desalination of Water
A desalination membrane requires 1000 PSI of pressure to operate. What if in the mountains above Santa Cruz you build a number of pools…
18 July 2014 -
ScienceProjectIdeas
Re: Facts About Insects and Minibeasts
Clophobia and everyone, we're glad you find our information useful. Is there anything we've missed?
12 June 2014
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