DIY science is the perfect way to use your creative skills and learn something new. With the right supplies, some determination, and a curious mind, you can create amazing experiments that open up a whole world of possibilities. At home-made laboratories or tech workshops, makers from all backgrounds can explore new ideas by finding ways to study their environment in novel ways – allowing them to make breathtaking discoveries!
Glass-eating chemical projects in your home laboratory from Popular Science 1938 – Etching your laboratory glassware is only one of the many possibilities offered by compounds of the active element fluorine. NOT long ago, a noted chemist told of a solvent powerful enough to dissolve nearly every known material. If the water on the earth […]
Using readily available equipment, you can carry out a home experiment that illustrates one of the weirdest effects in quantum mechanics. Thanks Jher! – Link.
Here’s a life-cycle energy analysis on reusable vs. disposable cups -another data set to look at would be from washing a cup in the sink (I have a dishwasher and never wash cups in it) but that said, a lot of people use a dishwasher for everything. There are other factors like soap production, transportation […]
The Inner Life of the Cell from the Biovisions at Harvard initiative is incredible, you’ve never seen working of a cell presented like this – the motor proteins are *phenomenal* – Link & full versions.
Nicholas sent in this fantastic SnoDeck – a motorized snow skateboard – Systems Design Engineering students at University of Waterloo demonstrate a skateboard modded for use in snow. The dual tracks are driven by electric drill motors and suspended on elongated skate trucks. Turning radius is 2 meters. A wired kill switch stops the machine […]
Pop Sci’s Theodore Gray show you how to make your own “spark plug” – A Spark plug is one of those humble, anonymous things without which the world would grind–or rather coast–to a halt. And like many underappreciated cogs in the machine, it has a really hard life. A good modern plug will endure 300 […]
Nikropht writes – Dan Edwards a student at NC State University, is attempting to break two records by creating an autonomous glider. The project goal is a 142 mile cross country flight and a 25 mile flight with return flight without human intervention. The glider finds thermal updrafts and automatically circles them to gain altitude, […]
