Hot Science Experiments News Stories
News: NASA to Bomb the Moon (For Real)
No joke. This is not an Onion headline. This coming Friday, October 9th, NASA is actually planning on bombing the moon in search for water. The missile, a Centaur rocket, will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aiming at the moon's South Pole. Scientists will then analyze the debris from the explosion for traces of water ice or vapor.
News: Solve Crimes With CSI Style Forensics
MAKE Magazine recently opened the Make: Science Room, a "DIY science classroom, virtual laboratory, and a place to share your projects, hacks, and laboratory tips with other amateur scientists."
News: Make a Battery Out of Money
Hunkin's Experiments offers over 200 science experiments freely available in comic strip form. The experiments are organized in 18 different categories, covering a wide range from simple trickery to more technical experiments. The author, Tim Hunkin, is a trained engineer turned cartoonist, and also responsible for TV series/site The Secret Life of Machines (worth a look).
News: Man Walks On Half a Million Volts of Electricity
Michael Faraday was an English chemist and physicist - a bona fide electromagnetism and electrochemistry genius. Without him, men couldn't walk on live electrical wires. Wait, what?
News: Rocket Power Your Lazy Boy
Since the days of Archytas, rocket propulsion has been the Holy Grail of aeronautics. Thanks to Galileo's inertia, Newton's laws of motion, and the "father of modern rocketry," Goddard, space is not a complete mystery anymore. Rocket-powered aircrafts have evolved from the first liquid fuel rocket in 1926, to the Soviet R-7 which launched Sputnik, to NASA's Saturn V that propelled Apollo 11 to the moon. Today, even billionaire tourists can enjoy space, like Microsoft's Charles Simonyi and Cir...
News: Home brew elephant toothpaste
But elephants don't need toothpaste, do they? Mr. Kent, a Long Island chemistry teacher, is at it again with his after hours experiments. We like to refer to him as Mr. Wizard 2.0.
News: Make poor man's liquid nitrogen
Bill Beaty's at it again! Our favorite crackpot physicist presents a backyard solution to that emergency need for cryogenic fluid. Sometimes you can't wait to freeze daisies.
News: Make an anti-gravity static powered floating orb
Think atomic theory is only for nerds? Think again. Make magical electrons dance right before your very eyes. This anti-gravity orb will move at your command.
News: Transform potatoes into plastic! (see teddy)
Hello, potato plastic -- goodbye, petroleum plastic! Watch carefully, treehuggers.
News: Grow rainbow salt crystals
Turn a used toilet paper roll into a fantastical garden of colorful salt crystals! Creator Jim, AKA HvySteel, is part artist, part scientist. His HowTo brings back great memories of our youth.
News: Hack a CRT into a lightning ball
NK5 is a genuine wizard with an old monitor. He's hacked together everything from an electric kitty fence to a Halloween hologram using the guts of an old CRT.
News: Make your money fireproof
Recession? What? We have money to burn. But don't worry. KentChemistry has a strategy to keep it in your pocket-- fireproof it!
News: Transform your watch into a compass
Honest. WonderHowTo was more than skeptical! But then we consulted the pros at Learn-Orienteering.org and got a lesson in navigation.
News: Smash the bottom out of a bottle bare handed
Bill Beaty is our favorite kind of science teacher. Here he gives us a lesson in cavitation. Sounds boring, right?
News: Ignite chaotic flashes of plasma in your microwave
Yes, plasma. The fourth state of matter. What's going on? The sparks result from an electrical discharge between the sides of the grape. If the flashes of light are not enough evidence, enjoy the 120Hz buzzing.
News: Make fireballs you can hold in your hands
Pyro or not, fireballs are intrinsically cool. Add in the handheld element and they're suddenly magical orbs.
News: Make magic milk
Trippy! Get the kids around the table for this one.
News: Make fire with potatoes, salt & toothpaste (FAUX-TO?)
Hotly contested video. The question remains, is the science behind the potato fire bonafide or bogus? We have yet to try it over here at WonderHowTo, and the comments thus far haven't indicated a solid verdict. Try it out and let us know! Is this a hoax? Or can you truly start a fire with a potato, salt and toothpaste?
News: Drown, and then, revive a fly
Lazarus, rise from the dead! This video intrigues me for its social implications. Frankly, I am not racing to personally replicate this tutorial.
News: Make hot ice
Why? Tricks the eye into thinking the impossible is as simple a single chemical reaction.
News: Melt a bottle in your microwave
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.
News: Make a tomato glow in the dark
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 tomatoes into glow in the dark orbs.
News: Rip a penny in half
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 it sounds.
News: Make milk into marbles
How can something so common as milk turn instantly into a hard ball? Alginate.
News: Light dry ice on fire
Impossible, right? Ahh, well science says fire and ice can and do coexist.
News: Light Fires with Toothpaste
The WonderHowTo Awards winners are in. The votes have been tallied. Despite all of these devastating wild fires, pyromania thrives!!
News: Harness your Midas touch!
Turn every darn coin into...gold!
News: Dissect a human ear
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 required.
News: Really make your penny worthless
Fist full of pennies weighing you down? This will certainly make your pockets lighter.
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