The purpose of this project is to quantify the effect of weather- in this case temperature and humidity- on musical instruments. All musicians know that the environment affects the tone of the instrum ...
Every day we use personal care products like shampoos, soaps, and lotions. We trust that these substances will clean and beautify us without giving us rashes. The scientists who design shampoos and fa ...
With Halloween right around the corner, find a way to use your brain and reward your tummy with a new type of science -- candy science! Have you ever wondered what makes candy bars different, besides ...
Astronauts have to contend with a number of unusual issues while living on the space station. Possibly the biggest difference between life up there and life down here is the apparent “weightlessness”: ...
Red ones, yellow ones, orange ones too—who likes tomatoes? If you’d like to grow more tomatoes, what can you do?Does removing the lower stems of a tomato plant increase the number of tomatoes that you ...
Plants that live outside are often watered by the rain, but indoor plants are usually given tap water. Water, along with soil and light, is one of the three essential elements needed to help plants gr ...
The savanna is a kind of biome (a community of similar ecosystems that share the same climate) primarily made up of grasses and trees. In a savanna, the trees are more scattered than in the forest, wh ...
In these experiments, students use steel wood pads to explore how rust occurs. They will have the opportunity to develop their own anti-rust measures, using clear nail polish, spray-on car wax, vegeta ...
Crickets chirp by rubbing their forewings together in order to attract mates. In this science project, you will analyze the relationship between temperature and the rate of cricket chirping.It is an e ...
The sprouting of seeds is called germination. A germinating seed has a baby plant, called an embryo, on its surface. This tiny living thing gets its nutrients from the cotyledon, which is the fleshy p ...