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Your illicit chemistry
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clues and work out how to
escape as fast as you can!

Gardners' World offers 10 garden activities for children

Explore the skys with your phone.
Sky Map is a hand-held planetarium for your Android device. Use it to identify stars, planets, nebulae and more. (Android)

Welcome to Marley's School of Garden Magic. While we are all at home, the Garden's black cat Marley continues to live at the Botanics in Edinburgh. Let him show you around.
Free courses for older teens and adults from the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

Fascinating experimetns and challenges to do at home using everyday objects.
44 engineering and science challenges
from the engineers at Dyson.

How can we use physics to make buildings more efficient? Find out about some of the behind-the-scenes technology that helps to make the IOP’s home in King's Cross an energy-efficient, sustainable building.

Help give nature a home where you live with this brand new app from the RSPB. Every week we’ll give you new activities, quizzes or information to help you create a wildlife paradise in your garden and learn about the creatures you’re helping.

Since 2010, the goal of the Solar Dynamics Observatory has been to understand the solar variations that influence life on Earth and humanity's technological systems.

Audio and Video stories about the history of medicine.

Use these pages to find fun activities, games to play and stuff to make.

Explore the skys with your phone.
Sky View Lite is a hand-held planetarium for your Android device. Use it to identify stars, planets, nebulae and more. (Apple)

Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh activities for primary age children

Fun science and engineering activities to do at home. Sponsored by the Institute of Physics

How can we use physics to help understand our surroundings? Find out what exciting physics is around you every day and how the IOP’s home in King's Cross is contributing to physics research.

Help give nature a home where you live with this brand new app from the RSPB. Every week we’ll give you new activities, quizzes or information to help you create a wildlife paradise in your garden and learn about the creatures you’re helping.

Lots of fun science experiments that can easily be done at home.

Lots of things to do, courtesy of the Natural History Museum

Help us take nature's pulse by joining the big butterfly count.

A simple to understand explanation of climate change and its causes

The world looks very different when it's slowed down. Watch this, and many other, amazing videos from the Slow Mo Guys

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Here you can browse the entire back catalogue of Marvin and Milo physics activities.

Build a hotel to look after hedgehogs, frogs, toads & newts, bees & creepy crawlies into your garden

Make delicious ice cream at home with science and without an ice cream maker.