Fist full of pennies weighing you down? This will certainly make your pockets lighter. Watch this chemical reaction as the zinc core of the penny dissolves without destroying the copper outer shell. ...
For most, anatomy dissections stopped at the frog. We can all experience med school cadaver picking thanks to an excellent library of videos published by the University of Wisconsion. No MCAT's requi ...
Turn every darn coin into...gold! Just follow this populist chemistry lesson. Turn an ordinary and virtually valueless American coin into shiny (fake) gold. KentChemistry's is full of subversive chemi ...
The WonderHowTo Awards winners are in. The votes have been tallied. Despite all of these devastating wild fires, pyromania thrives!! Congratulations to Angel and his toothpaste potato fires for winnin ...
Impossible, right? Ahh, well science says fire and ice can and do coexist. The Science of this experiment:Dry ice at -109ºF, is frozen carbon dioxide (CO2), not water (H2O). Dry ice is also much col ...
How can something so common as milk turn instantly into a hard ball? Alginate. This critical ingredient is in everything from casts to Tums to silk screening gear. It is also the magic powder dropped ...
Need a way to prove your strength? Only superheroes have the power to tear metal, right? Wrong! Even the weakest nerds can shred metal with science on their side. Ripping through metal is easier than ...
Gather all Mad Scientists. Science doesn't have to be all about hitting the books and memorizing formulas. Sometimes it's closer to Frankenstein or Dr.Jekyll than you can imagine. It's time to turn to ...
Some may call this a microwave prank. There won't be much left of the microwave...but what the heck...let's call it science. You need a blow torch to initiate the process of ionic conductivity. Horrib ...