Science on a shoestring: inspiring experiments with everyday items
Low cost, high impact: try these creative and engaging experiments that use inexpensive everyday materials to bring curriculum science to life.
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Low cost, high impact: try these creative and engaging experiments that use inexpensive everyday materials to bring curriculum science to life.
Explore how researchers investigate artworks without damaging them and reveal hidden information in paintings by using different wavelengths of light!
With flying colours: Try some simple but striking experiments to illustrate temporal additive colour mixing, and create and mix coloured shadows.
On a roll: a humble roll of toilet paper can be used in science experiments explore diverse topics in materials science, chemistry, and physics.
Turn your students into particle detectives and spark an interest in particle physics with an engaging and inexpensive science show for all ages.
Through the looking glass: unlock the secrets of anamorphosis, where art and science meet to create mind-bending illusions!
Shine a light on the science of colour: create and combine rainbows and explore how colours arise through reflection, absorption, and transmission.
This is the story of how scientists created an image of the region around the black hole at the centre of our galaxy by combining many telescopes into one virtual telescope the size of the Earth.
Have you ever seen a blue cow? A blue apple? Or a blue tree? Blue is rare in nature, so why are some plants and animals blue?
Seeing science in a new light: build your own stroboscope and use it to create beautiful optical illusions with water!
Science on a shoestring: inspiring experiments with everyday items
Shedding light on a Picasso
Colour magic: additive mixing and coloured shadows
Science in a toilet-paper roll
Particle Detectives: boldly bringing particle physics outreach to new frontiers
Exploring anamorphosis: revealing hidden images with mirrors
Colour science with lasers, gummy bears, and rainbows
How global teamwork revealed the mystery at the heart of our galaxy
Colour in nature: true blue
‘Defying’ gravity with a simple stroboscope