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Flash Science: Colorful Concoctions

Here’s a fun one to try at home: Brightly colored teas and juices often undergo cool color changes when you add vinegar or baking soda. It’s some fun, colorful, kitchen chemistry that anyone can try! Colorful Concoctions

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Flash Science: Wash Your Hands

One of the best weapons against the coronavirus (and other similar nasties)? Soap. This video shows how soap can disrupt a cell-like structure with an enclosing layer made of kerosene and plastic, just as soap disrupts the lipid bilayer that surrounds the coronavirus particles.

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Flash Science: Index of Refraction

The Little Shop of Physics team is making more episodes of a series we called Flash Science—quick, simple experiments that anyone can do—with a twist: We’ll do them in the studio, and then we’ll join some folks at a distance to see how it works out in the world. In this installment, we see how [...]

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Flash Science: Surface Tension and Pressure

Can a mesh fabric trap water in a glass? Sometimes! Brenna and Brian explain it all in this simple experiment!

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Flash Science: Pixelated Picture

Beads on a picture create an instant low tech pointillist painting.

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Flash Science: Heat Shrinking Plastic

A piece of clear plastic shrinks and turns white with heat. A great way to re-use #1 containers!

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Flash Science: Chips in the Microwave

The electric fields inside of a microwave cause sparks, heat, and even shrinks a bag of chips!

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Flash Science: Soap in the Microwave

A bar of soap in the microwave grows to tremendous proportions.

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Flash Science: Lightly Microwaved

You can light a bulb in the microwave (for a little while) and the electric fields in the oven will cause it to light!

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Flash Science: Ping Pong Canon

A water bottle and a grill igniter make a ping-pong ball launcher.

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