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March 23, 2020 | Day 1 of 50
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Color Changing Milk
Some very unusual interactions take place when you mix a little milk, food coloring, and a drop of liquid soap.

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Drops on a Penny
Drops on a Penny
You might think that you can’t fit many drops of water on the surface of a penny. However, bonds and surface tension give water some amazing properties.
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March 24, 2020 | Day 2 of 50

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Air Pressure
Can Crusher
Air Pressure Can Crusher
There are lots of different ways to crush a soda can… with your foot, in your hands, on your head. But nothing compares to the fun you’ll have doing it this way...
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March 25, 2020 | Day 3 of 50

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Cloud in a Bottle
Cloud in a Bottle
Making a cloud inside a bottle may help you figure out how they form outside in the sky. Warm, moist air rises in the atmosphere, cools, and beautiful, puffy clouds can be...
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March 26, 2020 | Day 4 of 50

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Floating Ping Pong Ball
Floating Ping Pong Ball
The power of air allows you to levitate a ball in midair. Replicate this levitating object phenomenon on a smaller scale using objects that are right in your home!
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March 27, 2020 | Day 5 of 50

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Magnetic Slime
Magnetic Slime
There’s a good chance you’ve (1) already worked with magnets and (2) made slime many times. It’s a good bet you haven’t done it at the same time...
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March 30, 2020 | Day 6 of 50

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Mysterious Water Suspension
Mysterious Water
Suspension
A glass jar is filled with water, the whole thing is turned upside down–how does the water defy gravity?
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March 31, 2020 | Day 7 of 50

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Homemade Ice Cream
Homemade Ice Cream
Here’s a simple recipe you can follow right at home to make your own ice cream. The scientific secret is plain old...
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April 1, 2020 | Day 8 of 50

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Balancing Nails
Balancing Nails
Find the center of gravity as twelve nails find precarious stability on the head of just one nail.
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April 2, 2020 | Day 9 of 50

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Colorful Convection Currents
Colorful Convection
Currents
Invisible convection currents are revealed using a very colorful demonstration.
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April 3, 2020 | Day 10 of 50

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CD Hovercraft
CD Hovercraft
Make your own miniature Hovercraft! Learn how to defeat friction in this amazing STEM Activity.
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April 6, 2020 | Day 11 of 50

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Water Thermometer
Water Thermometer
Is it possible to make a thermometer out of water? Absolutely! You’ll be measuring temperature with this amazing homemade tool in no time.
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April 7, 2020 | Day 12 of 50

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Floating Rice Bottle
Floating Rice Bottle
Ha! Think you know the oldest trick in the book? Try this amazing floating rice bottle magic trick that dates back thousands of years!
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April 8, 2020 | Day 13 of 50

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Balloon Skewer
Balloon Skewer
Some things in this world just don’t mix—dogs and cats, oil and water, needles and balloons. Everyone knows that a balloon’s worst fear is a sharp object...
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April 9, 2020 | Day 14 of 50

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Sugar Cube Magic
Sugar Cube Magic
A sugar cube, graphite, and some misdirection bring science and magic together with mystifying results.
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April 10, 2020 | Day 15 of 50

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Taco Sauce Penny Cleaner
Taco Sauce Penny Cleaner
Can you use taco sauce to clean the tarnish off of a penny? Believe it or not, taco sauce does a great job of cleaning pennies, but...
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April 13, 2020 | Day 16 of 50

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Invisible Soda
Invisible Soda
Milk and soda pop are both mostly water but each has ingredients that make for an unexpected reaction when they combine...
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April 14, 2020 | Day 17 of 50

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Coin Tower
Coin Tower
Use stacked coins as an immaculate kids’ science demonstration in inertia, friction, and movement. What’s the secret?
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April 15, 2020 | Day 18 of 50

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Falling Ring Catch
Falling Ring Catch
Is it possible to catch a falling ring with a loop of string? Engage your family with this puzzling trick.
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April 16, 2020 | Day 19 of 50

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Sugar Rainbow
Sugar Rainbow
Is it possible to catch a falling ring with a loop of string? Engage your family with this puzzling trick.
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April 17, 2020 | Day 20 of 50

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Marble Gravitron
Marble Gravitron
Remember the Gravitron ride from your local carnival? Learn the science behind how this ride works with a smaller at-home scale activity.
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April 20, 2020 | Day 21 of 50

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Mysterious Appearing Colors
Mysterious Appearing
Colors
Red and blue make purple, blue and yellow make green, but what happens when you mix black and white? A rainbow?
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April 21, 2020 | Day 22 of 50

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Strawberry DNA
Strawberry DNA
Extract, isolate, and observe the DNA of a strawberry in a matter of minutes. It sounds impossible, but thanks to the special characteristics of strawberries...
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April 22, 2020 | Day 23 of 50

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The Coin Drop
The Coin Drop
Dropping a penny into an empty glass sounds ordinary and simple. But, "ordinary and simple" is an invitation to dream up ways to use science to get it done!
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April 23, 2020 | Day 24 of 50

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Huff and Puff Challenge
Huff and Puff Challenge
He can huff, and he can puff, but the Big Bad Wolf can't blow this paper ball into the bottle. Explore the amazing power of air.
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April 24, 2020 | Day 25 of 50

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Diving Ketchup
Diving Ketchup
Did you know that you can cause a packet of ketchup to rise and fall on command in a bottle of water?
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April 27, 2020 | Day 27 of 50

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Homemade Geyser Tube
Homemade Geyser Tube
You can build your own ignition device for the famous Mentos and diet soda geyser eruption.
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April 28, 2020 | Day 27 of 50

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Homemade Rock Candy
Homemade Rock Candy
Who doesn't love a little kitchen chemistry that crystalizes into a sweet treat? Explore solutes, solvents, viscosity, sedimentation, and supersaturated solutions!
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April 29, 2020 | Day 28 of 50

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Mousetraps in Motion
Mousetraps in Motion
Have fun building mousetrap powered cars and converting potential energy into kinetic energy!
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April 30, 2020 | Day 29 of 50

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Wrapper Worm
Wrapper Worm
Here's a fun trick that uses cohesion and adhesion to bring science to the dinner table.
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May 1, 2020 | Day 30 of 50

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Match Levitation
Match Levitation
Whether watching that movie about wizards or catching up on our magic tricks, we love it when things mysteriously rise into the air. Learn the science behind...
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May 4, 2020 | Day 31 of 50

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Traveling Water
Traveling Water
Adhesion, cohesion, and gravity combine talents to move water from cup to cup.
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May 5, 2020 | Day 32 of 50

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Soda Can Jump
Soda Can Jump
Use a little bit of science (a.k.a. Bernoulli's Principle) to get a soda can to jump.
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May 6, 2020 | Day 33 of 50

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Blubber Glove
Blubber Glove
The animals of the Arctic and Antarctic circles spend their lives surviving subfreezing air temperatures and frigid water. Their secret is...
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May 7, 2020 | Day 34 of 50

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Homemade Hand Boiler
Homemade Hand Boiler
What would you say if we told you that you could make water boil with nothing more than your touch? Impossible, right?
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May 8, 2020 | Day 35 of 50

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Musical Straw
Musical Straw
There’s no telling what the first wind instrument (the one you blow into) ever played was. It’s probably a safe bet, however, that it wasn’t this one...
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May 11, 2020 | Day 36 of 50

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Make Your Own Compass
Make Your Own Compass
Find your direction with this do-it-yourself compass.
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May 12, 2020 | Day 37 of 50

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Magic Rollback Can
Magic Rollback Can
Potential and kinetic energy are both at work in this magical demonstration!
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May 13, 2020 | Day 38 of 50

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How to Make a Folding Egg
How to Make a Folding Egg
Just imagine the look on your friends’ faces when you show them an egg and then proceed to fold it in half several times until it forms a small white ball!
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May 14, 2020 | Day 39 of 50

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Anti-Gravity Water
Anti-Gravity Water
What if we told you that you could turn a glass of water completely upside down and the water wouldn’t fall to the floor?
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May 15, 2020 | Day 40 of 50

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Drag Racing Cups
Drag Racing Cups
Finish your coffee and use this fun and simple experiment to create an awesome racer!
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May 18, 2020 | Day 41 of 50

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Straw Through Potato
Straw Through Potato
Science nerds seem to like to find ways to poke straws through potatoes. There must be a deeper meaning… and there is!
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May 19, 2020 | Day 42 of 50

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Color Mixing Wheel
Color Mixing Wheel
Here’s an amazing way to combine scientific principles of physics with the visual science of color mixing.
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May 20, 2020 | Day 43 of 50

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Money Under Bottle
Money Under Bottle
This is an activity that uses friction and inertia in unexpected ways. But, you might make some quick cash.
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May 21, 2020 | Day 44 of 50

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Singing Glasses Toothpick Mover
Singing Glasses
Toothpick Mover
This is an activity that uses friction and inertia in unexpected ways. But, you might make some quick cash.
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May 22, 2020 | Day 45 of 50

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Disappearing Money
Disappearing Money
Here's a fun way to bend light and make money disappear!
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May 25, 2020 | Day 46 of 50

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World’s Simplest Motor
World’s Simplest Motor
While most motors are pretty complicated, this is the simplest one you can build.
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May 26, 2020 | Day 47 of 50

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Candle Seesaw
Candle Seesaw
This scientific amusement is easily overlooked when you’re thumbing through the pages of an old science book.
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May 27, 2020 | Day 48 of 50

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Flying Tea Rocket
Flying Tea Rocket
Launching an empty tea bag reveals the power of density differences and convection currents.
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May 28, 2020 | Day 49 of 50

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Screaming Balloon
Screaming Balloon
Well, it's our final day of 50 Experiments for 50 Days, and that might make you want to scream. But what if you could make a balloon scream instead?
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May 29, 2020 | Day 50 of 50

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Color Changing Milk
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March 23, 2020 | Day 1 of 50
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Mysterious Water
Suspension
March 31, 2020 | Day 7 of 50
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Colorful Convection
Currents
April 3, 2020 | Day 10 of 50
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Taco Sauce Penny Cleaner
April 13, 2020 | Day 16 of 50
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Mysterious Appearing
Colors
April 21, 2020 | Day 22 of 50
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Singing Glasses
Toothpick Mover
May 22, 2020 | Day 45 of 50
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