Everyday science

Science is fine, but of what concern is it to non-scientists? Quite a lot, actually, as our experts reveal:

Lighter than air?

We tend to take gravity for granted, don’t we? Explore its repercussions: are helicopters weightless?

The road to climate change?

Will increased car-ownership in developing nations offset carbon cuts, asks Our Man in India.

Detail from the Coastal Manager interactive

Control your own coast

Balance the demands of the people, the environment and the economy of a town by the sea: You are the coastal manager.

Superhuman

How far should athletes go in pursuit of the podium? Ethics Bites asked Michael Sandel about sport and genetic enhancement.

Our radio rocks

Once as vital to teenage life as Beatles wigs and winklepickers: get our instructions for building a crystal radio set.

Frank Spencer [Michael Crawford] tests the theory of centre of gravity

The middle

Whether you stand or fall owes a lot to your centre of gravity.

Making sweet music

Music is generally considered a form of art, but there's science at the heart of musical instruments.

But not a drop to drink?

Solar power might render the oceans drinkable through seawater distillation.

Cheat the heat

It's a massive great ball of fire. Can you protect your skin and beat the sun?

Strings into the sky

Want to relax and explore some science? Go fly a kite.

Cream cleaner

Save money at the chemist by making your own anti-bacterial cream.

Be like Fish

Observation and measurement of weather patterns is a challenge in itself, but can the Rough Scientists predict the weather?

Write on

Discover the science behind making paper and ink.

Radio experiment

With just a little electronics knowledge and a lot of patience you can make a saucepan radio.

Nothing comes from nothing

Defined as the 'capacity to do work' and by Einstein's famous equation E=mc², discover energy.

Charged

Power your knowledge as we explain how batteries work.

Cooking with science

When you make your tea, you're actually entering a kitchen lab.

Keep your desk safe

Protect your workstation from marauders with our desktop catapult.

Cook up some science

Your kitchen is also home to a full science lab - find out how with kitchen chaos.

How do cows get into a lasagne?

Turning the raw ingredients into edible foodstuffs takes the intervention of technology. Follow food from pasture to plate.

'And then they bite you...'

Ellen starts her mosquito farm - and then explains to Kate what she intends to do with them. It's all in the call of the wild video extra.

Over-egged?

Fancy an egg? And another? And another... could anyone eat eggs like Paul Newman appears to in Cool Hand Luke?

Cotton fabrics: can urine give them strength?

Urine - and then you're out?

Can urine really make fabric strong enough to allow escape from prison? Or was Jackie Chan taking the mickey in Shanghai Noon?

Swim with the fishes

Ready for some deep sea diving, but no oxygen tanks? No problem, if you understand pumps and pressures.

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