Best science experiments to do at home

A few favourite experiments that can be done at home using mostly readily available ingredients and objects.

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00:00If you're a scientist, name three elements.

00:13Well, let's see now. There's gold, ham, and the tears of a mermaid.

00:24Two out of three, close enough.

00:25The Mobius Strip is a cool science experiment that you can do at home with just a pair of scissors, a piece of paper, and some sticky tape.

00:34What you need to do is this.

00:36You cut your strip, then you turn it around so that it's made into the kind of loop you might use to make a paper chain.

00:44But before you sticky tape it, you take one end of the strip and turn it around so that the strip is made into this quite peculiar loop.

00:58You take a pair of scissors and a piece of tape, and then you carefully tape your strip closed.

01:11Chop your Mobius strip in half.

01:15So we chop it in half right down the middle.

01:18All the way round, all the way round, all the way round.

01:23And generally, when you chop something in half, you should end it with two halves, right?

01:29But with a Mobius strip, what you might find, if you've done it correctly, is that instead of chopping it in half, you have chopped it in whole.

01:37You have made white strip that is twice as long.

01:41Very peculiar.

02:39Bye-bye.

02:39and what you should do at home is put your cup onto the plate

02:48add a little bit of water, you don't want to add too much water

02:50but you don't want to add the wrong amount of water either

02:52that's why they call it an experiment

02:55when you commit to going around

02:59you've got to do it with all your

03:01are you ready?

03:02time for a trip

03:05oh my gosh how do I stop

03:12definitely try that at home