What's The Smartest Age?
YouthEducationSciencePsychologyAt what age are you smartest? Dig into how your brain development affects your skills at different stages of your life.
Primitive Technology: Smelting Iron In Brick Furnaces
AdultsEducationLifeNatureScienceTechnologyEngineeringI made 3 furnaces from bricks using different configurations to test their effectiveness. The benefit of using bricks to make a furnace is that it's quicker, easier, re-useable and portable relative to a furnace constructed in-situ from clay.
What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up?
AdultsLifeNatureWorldScienceGeologyThe Earth is a gigantic ball of semi-molten rock, with a heart of iron as hot as the surface of the Sun. Titanic amounts of heat left over from its birth and the radioactive decay of trillions of tons of radioactive elements find no escape but up.
Defying Gravity: Levitating A Car
YouthExperimentsScienceAllie, Cannan, and Jesse set out to see if the humble Slinky toy actually hovered when dropped from a height.
World's Largest Horn Shatters Glass
AdultsConstructionCreativityScienceGadgetsFunI might upgrade my car horn to this.
Earth From Space: Glasgow
YouthSpaceTechnologyWorldScienceThe Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over Glasgow, Scotland.
How Highlighter Pens Are Made
YouthScienceTechnologyHow-toLearn all about how highlighter pens are made!
What Is Static Electricity?
KidsExperimentsFactsScienceHow-toLearn about the science behind static charge and some fun science experiments to try at home.
Civilian Tries on NASA Spacesuit For the First Time
AdultsConstructionScienceSpaceTechnologyHow does WIRED's Brent Rose feel about being the first person outside of the space program to try on a pressurized space suit?
Earth From Space: UK Heatwave
KidsSpaceTechnologyWorldWeatherEnvironmentScienceThe Copernicus Sentinel-3 images show the scale of Britain’s heatwave in August.
How Rollercoasters Affect Your Body
YouthScienceTechnologyHealthBrian D. Avery investigates what rollercoasters are doing to your body and how they’ve managed to get scarier and safer at the same time.