Experiments category: 574 books
by VT
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
Approximately 72 million adults in the US used some form of complementary and alternative medicine between 1997 and 2002.1 The prevalence of its use specifically for glaucoma—including herbal remedies, acupuncture, home-opathy, faith healing, meditation, megavitamin therapy, therapeutic touch, exercise, and dietary modification—is approximately 5%.2
by Dona Herweck Rice
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 11, 2017
La ciencia no solo se basa en los hechos. ¡Se basa en la evidencia! Los científicos a menudo llegan a direcciones inesperadas a medida que siguen donde la evidencia los conduce. Aprende cómo navegar a través del viaje de investigación científica y analizar las evidencia para descubrir la verdad....
by Dona Herweck Rice
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Science is not all about the facts. It's about the evidence! Scientists often launch into unexpected directions as they follow where the evidence leads. Learn how to navigate through the scientific inquiry journey and analyze evidence to discover truth. Fifth-grade readers will learn all about authentic...
Nefertiti, the spidernaut
The Jumping Spider Who Learned to Hunt in Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2016
THE AMAZING VOYAGE OF NEFERTITI, THE SPIDERNAUT --
Most spiders spin a web and passively wait for prey to come to them. Jumping spiders, by contrast, actively hunt by jumping to catch their food. What if a jumping spider was sent to the International Space Station? When it jumped, it would...
Artificial Intelligence
Thinking Machines and Smart Robots with Science Activities for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
What is artificial intelligence? How is artificial intelligence going to change our lives?
“Alexa, play my favorite song! Alexa, shut the garage door!” Imagine a world in which you simply call out a request while sitting in your living room and have a small computer comply. Suddenly, the...
The Racecar Book
Build and Race Mousetrap Cars, Dragsters, Tri-Can Haulers & More
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A project book for young readers with a need for speed, this work provides instruction on 25 easy-to-construct racecars that can be driven both indoors and out. They will learn how to use mousetraps, rubber bands, chemical reactions, gravity, and air pressure to power the cars that are made for little...
Geek Dad
Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The ultimate DIY project guide for techie dads raising kids in their own geeky image, in the spirit of The Dangerous Book for Boys
Today's generation of dads grew up more tech-savvy than ever. Rather than joining the Little League team, many grew up playing computer games, Dungeons and Dragons,...
by Dustyn Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Get Your Move On!
In Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists, you'll learn how to successfully build moving mechanisms through non-technical explanations, examples, and do-it-yourself projects--from kinetic art installations to creative toys to energy-harvesting devices....
Physics of the Impossible
A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships—the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologies? Inspired by the fantastic worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Back to the Future, renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku...
Einstein's Shadow
The Inside Story of Astronomers' Decades-Long Quest to Take the First Picture of a Black Hole
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE
Einstein’s Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to take the first picture of a black hole, putting Einstein’s theory of relativity to its ultimate test and helping to answer our deepest questions about space, time, the origins...
by John Austin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
With the advent of modern household products and office supplies—binder clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips, plastic utensils, and matches and barbeque lighters—troublemakers of all stripes have the components needed to build an impressive, if somewhat miniaturized,...
UFOs
Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Foreword by Jacques F. Vallee
Introduction by Burt Rutan
Commentary by Tom Clancy
A never-before-heard firsthand account of a government insider's experience on the cutting edge of UFO exploration
While still on active duty in the U.S. Army during the 1980s, Colonel John...
by Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The father of modern-day electricity and considered by some to be the ultimate “mad scientist,” Nikola Tesla filed nearly 300 patents in his lifetime. Many of these patents resulted in functioning inventions; others were little more than wide-eyed dreams—or still await possible development. Tesla...
by Lee Gutkind
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
A remarkable, intense portrait of the robotic subculture and the challenging quest for robot autonomy.
The high bay at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is alive and hyper night and day with the likes of Hyperion, which traversed the Antarctic, and Zoe, the world’s first...