• Learn six different ways to build a laser at home
• Study variable stars like a pro.
•Build a seismograph to study earthquakes
• Make soap bubbles that last for months (or even years!)
• Monitor the health of local streams
• Preserve biological specimens
• Grow bacteria cultures safely at home
• Grind a telescope mirror
• Search for titanic galactic explosions
• Build a ripple tank to study wave phenomena
• Discover how plants grow in low gravity
• Investigate the chemistry of Béarnaise sauce
• Build a hyper-accurate thermometer
• Study the physics of amusement park rides
• Do strange experiments with sound
• Experiment with films only one molecule thick
• Use a hot wire to study the crystal structure of steel
• Extract and purify DNA in your kitchen
• Create a laser hologram
• Run computer programs that simulate living systems
• Investigate vortexes in water
• Measure the energy drain on your car
• Study the effect of ultrasonics on plant growth
• Cultivate slime molds
• Study the flight efficiency of soaring birds
• Raise butterflies as experimental animals
• Study the physics of spinning tops
• Build an apparatus for studying chaotic systems
• Detect metals in air, liquids, or solids
• Photograph an ant's brain and nervous system
• Use magnets to make fluids into solids
• Measure the metabolism of an insect
• Lean about the physics of martial arts
• Rear a plankton menagerie
• Build an electrostatic generator
• Study the dynamics of cracks in a surface
• Photograph a comet
• Construct equipment to study the formation of crystals
• Build a hydrophone and record underwater sounds
• Determine the Gravitational Constant |
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• Build a video microscope for about $10
• Directly observe the moon's gravity on earth
• Observe cosmic rays from outer space
• Test the color vision of pigeons
• Construct a particle accelerator at home
• Grow animal tissue cultures
• Build a working Stirling Engine in your backyard
• Collect and preserve spider webs
• Keep reptiles alive and healthy
• Study radioactivity with a diffusion cloud chamber
• Build a gas chromatograph for analyzing substances
• Construct a working camera with a lens made of ice
• Record bird songs
• Measure the charge of a single electron
• Spy on fledglings in their nest
• Build a working electrocardiogram to monitor your own heartbeat
• Study the metabolism of small animals, even individual insects!
• Build an osmotic pump
• Measure the electric charge on raindrops
• Monitor atmospheric haze
• Discover rainfall patterns in a storm
• Study fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field
• Build a wind tunnel to study aerodynamics
• Preserve snowflakes in plastic
• Build a pendulum that detects the earth's rotation
• Map a watershed
• Simulate the process of stream and river erosion
• Build a spectrograph to determine the chemical structure of materials
• Use a kite as an experimental platform
• Build an underwater observatory
• Identify minerals found in clay
• Build and maintain a saltwater aquarium
• Build a research-quality telescope at home
• Demonstrate the basic principles of enzyme action
• Make your own electrochemical cell
• Measure the strengh of chemical bonds
• Synthesize organic molecules
• Simulate the geology of beaches with a wave machine
• Build a device that draws "harmonograms"
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