Kitchen Science Experiments

Recycling Paper

Take some of those old bits of paper and recycle them to make some new. It is far more fun than buying recycled paper in a shop.

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Dropping Eggs

How to stop an egg from breaking when dropped without any padding, and what it has to do with a womb.

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Confusing colours

Confuse your eyes with this colourful experiment, and find out how it relates to seeing in the dark

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Fruit Fireballs

You may think that oranges seem are a fairly boring sort of fruit. Discover their more exciting side in this simple experiment.

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Freezing batteries

We have a look at the chemistry of batteries and what happens if you cool them down.

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Why does a pigeon's head bob as it walks?

Pigeons and various other birds seem to bob their heads backwards and forwards in a bizarre manner, which seems to be a lot of hard work. I was watching some in front of my garage and dug out the high speed camera to see what is going on.

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Colour your own flowers

Find out how to make your own garishly coloured flowers, and how it relates to the way plants lift water to their leaves.

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Snapping Spaghetti

What happens when you snap a simple piece of spaghetti? Believe it or not, this is a question that has baffled some of the finest minds in the world. Why not have a go yourself?

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Building Bridges - The Science of Beams

Have a go at the Naked Scientists Bridge Challenge and see if you can do better than we did...

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Steam explosions - the science of popcorn

Find out some of the science behind that tasty cinema snack! Why is it that you always find tiny popcorn at the bottom of your bowl?

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Weighing the Atmosphere

Find out how hard a vacuum cleaner can suck, what this has got to do with air pressure and discover how this helps us suck.

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Fizzy Acids - what happens when you carbonate water

Discover what happens when you make water fizzy, why it then tastes so tangy and why this could cause problems for shellfish.

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Why do wheels work?

The wheel is something we have been taking for granted for the last 7000 years, but why is it so effective?

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Pumping Straw - a centrifugal pump

Make a pump out of a straw and a skewer and soak all your friends.

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Liquid Nitrogen Bomb

One thing you should never do to liquid nitrogen is to seal it in a pressure vessel.... so we had a go.

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