Using a galvanised nail and a copper penny as electrodes and lemon juice as an electrolyte can create a rudimentary battery. When the zinc-coated nail is pushed into a lemon, the mild citric acid in ...

Make Valentine’s Day magical! Learn how to grow heart-shaped borax crystals with this easy DIY science experiment anyone can try. Gather your kids around the table for this fun exploration into ...

For Baby Boomers, science class wasn’t just about memorizing facts — it was about hands-on experiments that could be messy, exciting, or even slightly dangerous. From the 1950s through the 1970s, ...

Stephen Ashworth occasionally receives funding from bodies such as The Royal Society of Chemistry through a number of different routes to pursue my Kitchen Chemistry Science Shows. I have also been ...

research laboratory to study “bad bubbles” that cause defects in metal alloys used to produce engine turbine blades and semiconductor crystals that are crucial components in electronic devices.

The erudite science of solid-state physics can predict from theory how strong a metallic crystal should be if all its atoms were arranged in a perfect, regular pattern. The figure is usually so high ...

Quartz crystals are harder to grow than the tenderest orchids. How nature does it is not exactly known, and nature does not produce enough big, perfect crystals to provide electrical manufacturers ...