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Steve joins us live in studio and shares a cool experiment from his brand new Mind-Blowing Science Experiments book on the science of balloons.

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Universe 25 'Rodent Utopia' Experiment Doesn't Mean Human Society Is Dying John Calhoun's "rodent utopia" experiments have been frequently used as evidence for "societal decay." ...

A scientist in Arkansas couldn’t get her experiments to work. Then others started saying the same thing.

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In this extract from the new book Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science, science writer Philip Ball explains how Isaac Newton transformed our understanding of light.

4 Thought Experiments That Ask Tough Questions About the Nature of Reality Let these logic conundrums test your mental mettle (and fire up some heated debates at the dinner table).

THE provision of lecture experiments to illustrate and emphasise scientific teaching is a matter of great importance, and the Science Masters' Association, in producing these two books, has ...