If I told you there was a robot that was 14 feet long, had 7,000 complex parts, and cost almost a million dollars, what do you think it would make? Alex Vardakostas invented this machine to do what you might think is a very simple…
Flying drones around in the air is a lot of fun, especially when they have a camera and you can take awesome videos from way up high! But instead of going way up high, have you ever wanted to “fly” a drone way down low…like…
Have you seen the Pixar movie “Up” and wondered if you really could make a house fly by attaching enough balloons to it? It turns out somebody’s actually tried that, and it worked! Jonathan Trappe has attached big balloons to office chairs, couches, row boats,…
You know those plastic shopping bags you get from the grocery store? A lot of them end up in the dump or as litter on the ground or even in the ocean. They can hurt animals when they’re just thrown away, fish like Nemo and Dory, and…
On my eighth or ninth birthday, I got a bunch of Matchbox cars and tracks that you can build yourself. I remember using every piece of my track and running my cars from the front of the house all the way to the back. The…
Sometimes I get a little bored with my everyday routine. It’s like, get up, get dressed, feed the cats, wake up the baby, go to work, come home, make dinner, eat dinner, put the baby to bed, go to bed, lather, rinse, and repeat. So I…
In my opinion ice cream is one of the best treats for the summer. I actually make my own ice cream at home using frozen bananas, it’s pretty easy and really good! And ice cream is pretty good eating it out of a bowl, but if…
How many rubber bands does it take to explode a watermelon? It takes more than just 10 or 20, watermelons are tough! It probably takes a couple hundred rubber bands to squeeze it until it pops! Jillian and her brother Evan attempt to find out, and…
What’s one of your favorite toys to play with? Did you ever wonder how that got invented? Like the Super Soaker, it was invented by a NASA scientist who was trying to build a new kind of heat pump. Or like Silly String, which was…
What do you think of when people talk about computers? An iPad, tablet, smartphone? Those are all computers of course, but they’re not easy to understand how they work inside. You can't (and shouldn't try) open them up very easily and see what the bits and…
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