Have you ever wondered why fizzy drinks make you burp? Read on to find out and try a science activity to demonstrate! Fizzy ...

The human brain is over three times as big as the brains of other mammals of similar body size. Your brain has around 100 billion nerve cells. An adult human is thought to contain around 7 Octillion ...

Have you ever wondered why fizzy drinks make you burp? Read on to find out and try a science activity to demonstrate! Fizzy drinks are fizzy because they have carbon dioxide gas pumped into them under ...

All moving objects have momentum. Another way to think about momentum is how hard it is to stop a moving object. It’s harder to stop an object moving quickly than an object moving slowly. One very ...

Imagine a world where science education is accessible to everyone and focused on hands-on, exciting discoveries. That’s the world I want to create.

The answer is more than I had! We managed to light an LED with two lemons and could see between 2 and 3 volts from the lemon batteries on a voltmeter, but the current passing through was very small.

Before we had clocks and watches, people used sundials to mark the passing of time. A sundial measures time by the sun’s position and usually has markings for each hour of sunlight. Sundials have ...

One of my favourites of Kerry’s experiments is her play doh brain, so when we found an old pack of play-doh in the cupboard I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to try it out. First, we ...

Have you ever wondered why a bag of crisps ( or potato chips ) expands on an aeroplane? It’s all about air pressure. The crisp packet was sealed at a lower altitude where atmospheric pressure is ...

Here at Science Sparks, we’ve tried a lot of science experiments over the years; some have been brilliant on the first go, some have taken a LOT of tweaking, and some have been a complete disaster!

Football fans and future scientists will love my collection of hands-on football themed science experiments and sporty STEM Challenges. Whether you’re a teacher looking for engaging classroom ...

If you look at an earthworm, you can see its body is made up of many segments. Underneath the segments are muscles that contract and relax, allowing the worm to move. Worms are essential for the ...