Have you ever wanted to make your own batch of slime? IF so, here's the recipe! Plus, outreach Science Educator Jason Lindsey tells you the cool science behind slime.
Have you ever wanted to make your own lava lamp? If so, all you need are a few things from around the house. It's another experiment that might get you and your family "Hooked on Science."
Have you ever wanted to create your own rocket? You can and it's easy! Outreach science educator Jason Lindsey shows you how carbon dioxide gas builds up so much pressure it can forcibly launch a film canister lid into the air. With an Alka-Seltzer tablet, the CO2 is produced as a result of a chemical reaction. Kids you can try the experiment at home with an adult.
Baby diapers have something unique inside called a superabsorbent polymer that keeps babies dry and parents happy. Here's another experiment that might get you and your family "Hooked on Science."
It's happened to us all once or twice, we go to open our favorite can of soda and it spews all over the place. You can stop this from happening by using a little science trick and it has nothing to do with tapping the top.
Using a few things from around the house you can create your own smoke ring launcher. The smoke ring launcher is also called an air cannon and it proves that air takes up space.
Hundreds of kids, young and old, put Cape Girardeau, Missouri into the record books at Science Day
2008. The residents of southeast Missouri, southern Illinois, and western Kentucky blew up 852
balloons in an hour breaking the previous record of 600 balloons.
The Madagascar hissing cockroach is one of the largest species of cockroaches. They hiss due to their ability to force air through the breathing pores found on their abdomen.
