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!
Turns out rats are ticklish, and they laugh… It might even work using a bat detector like the one we showed you how to construct here @ MAKE… I supposed you could potentially tune in to the rat giggling… Aristotle declared that humans are the only animal to laugh, but then, he never saw this […]
Forrest M. Mims III has an article on using a data logger to record the temperature inside a beehive in the latest Citizen Scientist – Over the years I’ve done some consulting for the people at Onset Computer Corporation, the makers of Hobo Data Loggers and various related products. Consequently, I’ve accumulated a nice collection […]
There isn’t a how-to (yet) – but this seems like an interesting new particle board material… Home-buyers of tomorrow could find themselves walking across floors made from manure. That’s no cow pie-in-the-sky dream, according to researchers at Michigan State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They say fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure […]
Tom sent in this letter to Physics Today, he used an atomic clocks to show his kids they’d get an extra 22 nanosecond from relativistic time dilation… I’m a little skeptical since the difference would be super tiny, but have a gander – it’s pretty neat – I enjoyed Daniel Kleppner’s Reference Frame about the […]
Teamdroid writes – Everyone knows about hot air balloons. A great big sack filled with hot air that floats as if by magic in the sky. I’m sure most people think that the air needs to be heated by great honking propane torches to obtain positive buoyancy but that just isn’t the case. With a […]
A lot of folks sent this in today, a 17 year old made a sub-$1,000 spectrograph. If anyone knows more about this and/or is in contact with Mary let us know! A 17-year-old girl won a scholarship worth $100,000 for building an inexpensive yet accurate spectrograph that identifies the “fingerprints” of different molecules. Mary Masterman, […]
There’s a common belief, at least in the U.S., that if you were to dig a hole deep enough (assuming the technology existed), eventually you’d pop out on the other side of the earth, and this would be somewhere in China. This belief might be true… …if you were to start your hole in Argentina. […]
