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| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Bottled-Up Buoyancy |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Buoyancy of Floating Cylinders |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Do Submarines Need Fins? |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Efficient Propeller Design |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | How Does a Hovercraft Work? |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | How Much Weight Can Your Boat Float? |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Let's Go Fly a Kite! |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Making It Shipshape: Hull Design and Hydrodynamics |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Milk Does Your Body and a Boat Good—Design Your Own Milk Carton Boat |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Parachutes: Does Size Matter? |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Riding on Air—Build a Real Hovercraft |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Rocket Aerodynamics |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | The 'Ultimate' Science Fair Project: Flying Disk Aerodynamics |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | The Swimming Secrets of Duck Feet |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | The Wright Stuff: Using Kites to Study Aerodynamics |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | What A Drag! |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | What Makes a Good Aerodynamic Design? Test Your Ideas with High-Performance Paper Gliders |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Which Wing Design Creates the Greatest Lift? |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Whirl-y-bird vs. Whale-y-bird |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Why Do Aerobie Flying Rings Go So Much Further Than Frisbees? |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Why Winglets? |
| Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics | Winglets in Wind Tunnels |
| Applied Mechanics | Applying Hooke's Law: Make Your Own Spring Scale |
| Applied Mechanics | Bomb's Away! A Ping Pong Catapult |
| Applied Mechanics | Deep Knee Bends: Measuring Knee Stress with a Mechanical Model |
| Applied Mechanics | Effect of Friction on Objects in Motion |
| Applied Mechanics | Effect of Trebuchet Arm Length or Counterweight Mass on Projectile Distance |
| Applied Mechanics | Fractography: The Way Things Break |
| Applied Mechanics | Gears-Go-Round! |
| Applied Mechanics | Give Yourself a Lift: Lightening the Load with Pulleys |
| Applied Mechanics | It's All in the Wrist: Moving Water with the Archimedes Screw Pump |
| Applied Mechanics | Knock Your Blocks Off: The Mechanics of Carnival Games |
| Applied Mechanics | Measuring Vibrational Frequency with Light |
| Applied Mechanics | Rubber Band Elasticity and Temperature |
| Applied Mechanics | Rubber Bands for Energy |
| Applied Mechanics | Slinking Slinkies |
| Applied Mechanics | Slippery Slopes and Sticking Surfaces: Explore the Forces of Friction |
| Applied Mechanics | Soda Straw Robot Simulator |
| Applied Mechanics | Take the Sally Ride TOYchallenge |
| Applied Mechanics | The Gaming Master |
| Applied Mechanics | The Physics of Cheating in Baseball |
| Applied Mechanics | Time is Money |
| Applied Mechanics | Understand Shock Levels and Packaging Principles |
| Applied Mechanics | Veggie Snap! Modifying Bending Stresses in a Flexible Rod |
| Applied Mechanics | Which Simple Machines Do I Use the Most? |
| Applied Mechanics | You Nailed It! Hammering Force for Different Types of Wood |
| Astronomy | A Matter of Time |
| Astronomy | A Puzzling Parallax |
| Astronomy | Calculating the Circumference of the Earth |
| Astronomy | Catching Stardust |
| Astronomy | Changing Constellations |
| Astronomy | Correlation of Coronal Mass Ejections with the Solar Sunspot Cycle |
| Astronomy | Craters and Meteorites |
| Astronomy | Measuring the Moon |
| Astronomy | Similar Triangles: Using Parallax to Measure Distance |
| Astronomy | Sunspot Cycles |
| Astronomy | The Milky Way and Beyond: Globular Clusters |
| Astronomy | The Moon and the Stars |
| Astronomy | The Moon and Tides |
| Astronomy | Using a Digital Camera to Measure Skyglow |
| Astronomy | Using the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory Satellite (SOHO) to Determine the Rotation of the Sun |
| Astronomy | Using the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory Satellite (SOHO) to Measure the Motion of a Coronal Mass Ejection |
| Astronomy | What Makes the Rings of Saturn? |
| Astronomy | Where Did All the Stars Go? |
| Astronomy | Which Stars Can You Use for Navigation in Different Parts of the World? |
| Biotechnology | A Juicy Project: Extracting Apple Juice with Pectinase |
| Biotechnology | A Magnetic Primer Designer |
| Biotechnology | Bacterial Transformation Efficiency |
| Biotechnology | Do-It-Yourself DNA |
| Biotechnology | Egg Substitutes |
| Biotechnology | Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions -- What Affects Their Rates? |
| Biotechnology | Extracting Onion DNA |
| Biotechnology | Forensic Science: Building Your Own Tool for Identifying DNA |
| Biotechnology | How Are Antibodies Used for Blood Typing? |
| Biotechnology | Mag-nificent Breakfast Cereal |
| Biotechnology | Molecular Scissors |
| Biotechnology | What Makes a DNA Fingerprint Unique? |
| Biotechnology | Which Fruits Can Ruin Your Dessert? |
| Biotechnology | Who Done It? DNA Fingerprinting and Forensics |
| Chemistry | A Soluble Separation Solution |
| Chemistry | Big Pieces or Small Pieces: Which React Faster? |
| Chemistry | Bouncy Polymer Chemistry |
| Chemistry | Boyle's Law: Pressure vs. Volume of a Gas at Constant Temperature |
| Chemistry | Bubble-ology |
| Chemistry | Burning Calories: How Much Energy is Stored in Different Types of Food? |
| Chemistry | Cabbage Chemistry |
| Chemistry | Can You Change the Rate of a Chemical Reaction by Changing the Particle Size of the Reactants? |
| Chemistry | Candy Chromatography: What Makes Those Colors? |
| Chemistry | Charles's Law: Volume vs. Temperature of a Gas at Constant Pressure |
| Chemistry | Chemistry of Baking Ingredients 1: How Much Baking Powder Do Quick Breads Need? |
| Chemistry | Chemistry of Baking Ingredients 2: Can Baking Soda Substitute for Baking Powder in a Recipe? |
| Chemistry | Chemistry of Ice-Cream Making: Lowering the Freezing Point of Water |
| Chemistry | Determining Iodide Content of Salt |
| Chemistry | Do Oranges Lose or Gain Vitamin C After Being Picked? |
| Chemistry | How Fast Does an Alka-Seltzer® Tablet Make Gas? |
| Chemistry | How to Make the Boldest, Brightest Tie Dye! |
| Chemistry | Liver Stinks! |
| Chemistry | Make Your Own Markers |
| Chemistry | Make Your Own pH Paper |
| Chemistry | Measuring Surface Tension of Water with a Penny |
| Chemistry | Measuring the Amount of Acid in Vinegar by Titration with an Indicator Solution |
| Chemistry | Paper Chromatography: Advanced Version 1 |
| Chemistry | Paper Chromatography: Advanced Version 2 |
| Chemistry | Paper Chromatography: Basic Version |
| Chemistry | Plop, Plop, Fizz Fast: The Effect of Temperature on Reaction Time |
| Chemistry | Saturated Solutions: Measuring Solubility |
| Chemistry | The Chemistry of Hair Highlights |
| Chemistry | What Makes Ice Melt Fastest? |
| Chemistry | What's the Point of Boiling? |
| Chemistry | When Science is Sweet: Growing Rock Candy Crystals |
| Chemistry | Which Orange Juice Has the Most Vitamin C? |
| Civil Engineering | Bridges That Can Take a Shake! |
| Civil Engineering | Building Structures: It's a Slippery Slope |
| Civil Engineering | Building the Tallest Tower |
| Civil Engineering | Dome Sweet Dome |
| Civil Engineering | How Does the Ratio of Sand to Cement Affect the Strength of Concrete? |
| Civil Engineering | Keeping You in Suspens(ion) |
| Civil Engineering | Set Your Table for a Sweet and Sticky Earthquake Shake |
| Civil Engineering | Solid Ground? Measuring Soil Bearing Capacity |
| Civil Engineering | Solving a 'Windy' Problem |
| Civil Engineering | The Design Process: Creating a Stronger Truss |
| Civil Engineering | The Effect of Bridge Design on Weight Bearing Capacity |
| Computer Science | ABC's of Programming: Writing a Simple 'Alphabetizer' with JavaScript |
| Computer Science | Artificial Intelligence: Teaching the Computer to Play Tic-Tac-Toe |
| Computer Science | Bits, Bytes, and Bases: Write a JavaScript Binary/Decimal/Hexadecimal Converter |
| Computer Science | CD Burning: Take it to the Edge |
| Computer Science | Circles, Tangent Lines and Triangles |
| Computer Science | Combining Computer Science and Math: Circumscribing a Circle about a Triangle Using the Geometry Applet |
| Computer Science | Combining Computer Science and Math: Inscribing a Circle in a Triangle Using the Geometry Applet |
| Computer Science | Computer Sleuth: Identification by Text Analysis |
| Computer Science | Follow the Bouncing Ball: A Web Animation Project |
| Computer Science | Font and File Size |
| Computer Science | Forms and Functions: Writing a Simple Calculator Program with JavaScript |
| Computer Science | Getting More Out of Less : Google Hits and Search Terms |
| Computer Science | How Fast is Your Computer? |
| Computer Science | How Many Letters? |
| Computer Science | Image Compression vs. Image Quality: Finding the Best Tradeoff |
| Computer Science | Image File Types and Size |
| Computer Science | Paragraph Stats: Writing a JavaScript Program to 'Measure' Text |
| Computer Science | Program to Check a Sudoku Solution |
| Computer Science | Programming NANORGs in a Virtual World |
| Computer Science | Tangent Circles and Triangles |
| Computer Science | The Point of a Parabola: Focusing Signals for a Better Wireless Network |
| Computer Science | Wild About Wildcards |
| Electricity & Electronics | A Cool Way to Make Electricity: Solar Cell Power Output vs. Temperature |
| Electricity & Electronics | Batteries: The Shocking Truth |
| Electricity & Electronics | Building an Electric Motor |
| Electricity & Electronics | Color Mixing with Red, Green, & Blue LEDs |
| Electricity & Electronics | Conductance as a Water Quality Measurement |
| Electricity & Electronics | Cool Junctions |
| Electricity & Electronics | Crank Up the Music! |
| Electricity & Electronics | How Do Different Materials React to Static Electricity? |
| Electricity & Electronics | How Does LED Brightness Vary with Current? |
| Electricity & Electronics | How Does Solar Cell Output Vary with Incident Light Intensity? |
| Electricity & Electronics | How Far Can Sparks Jump? |
| Electricity & Electronics | How Long Does It Take to Fry a Diode? |
| Electricity & Electronics | Induction: How Many Coil Turns Do I Need? |
| Electricity & Electronics | Linear vs. Logarithmic Changes: What Works Best for Human Senses? |
| Electricity & Electronics | Make Your Own Electric Guitar Pickup |
| Electricity & Electronics | Make Your Own Low-Power AM Radio Transmitter |
| Electricity & Electronics | Make Your Own Piezoelectric Pickup for Acoustic Guitar |
| Electricity & Electronics | Measure Your Magnetism |
| Electricity & Electronics | Pencil Resistors |
| Electricity & Electronics | Recording on a Wire |
| Electricity & Electronics | Rock On! Recording Digital Data with Magnets |
| Electricity & Electronics | Rock'n'Roll Radios (Updated Version) |
| Electricity & Electronics | Rubbing Up Against Static Electricity |
| Electricity & Electronics | Shaking Up Some Energy |
| Electricity & Electronics | Solar Speedway |
| Electricity & Electronics | Testing a Parabolic Reflector with Light from an LED |
| Electricity & Electronics | The Strength of an Electromagnet |
| Electricity & Electronics | Two-Point and Four-Point Methods for Measuring Small Resistances |
| Electricity & Electronics | Veggie Power! Making Batteries from Fruits and Vegetables |
| Electricity & Electronics | Where Is 'Full Sun' No Brighter than Twilight? |
| Electricity & Electronics | Where There Is Charge, There Can Be Sparks! |
| Electricity & Electronics | Which Materials are the Best Conductors? |
| Energy & Power | The Future of LEDs Is So Bright, I've Got to Wear Shades |
| Environmental Engineering | Alternative Sources for Paper Fiber |
| Environmental Engineering | Can the Color of Your House Reduce Your Energy Bill? |
| Environmental Engineering | Free Lunch? Can Solar Energy Systems Pay for Themselves with Utility Bill Savings? |
| Environmental Engineering | From Your John to the School Lawn: Is Recycled Water Really Safe? |
| Environmental Engineering | Goo-Be-Gone: Cleaning Up Oil Spills |
| Environmental Engineering | How Can Your Faucet Save Water? |
| Environmental Engineering | How Much Can Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions? |
| Environmental Engineering | Now You're Cooking! |
| Environmental Engineering | Riprap: It's Not Hip Hop But Erosion Stop |
| Environmental Engineering | Rooftop Gardens: Are They a Cool Idea? |
| Environmental Engineering | Smart Watering: Adjusting Your Sprinklers for Optimal Soil Moisture |
| Environmental Engineering | Solar-Powered Water Desalination |
| Environmental Science | Acid Rain and Aquatic Life |
| Environmental Science | Air Particles and Air Quality |
| Environmental Science | Are There Bugs Under Your Feet? |
| Environmental Science | Are There Dangerous Levels of Lead in Local Soil? |
| Environmental Science | Feeding Earthworms: Do Different Diets Affect Them and the Soil They Enrich? |
| Environmental Science | Get Down and Dirty: How Does Soil Change with Depth? |
| Environmental Science | Getting Carried Away: Measuring Soil Erosion |
| Environmental Science | Heavy Metals and Aquatic Environments |
| Environmental Science | How Does Soil Affect the pH of Water? |
| Environmental Science | I'm Trying to Breathe Here! Dissolved Oxygen vs. Temperature |
| Environmental Science | It's Raining, It's Pouring: Chemical Analysis of Rainwater |
| Environmental Science | Mapping Troposhperic Ozone Levels Over Time |
| Environmental Science | Recycling Greywater: Can Plants Tolerate It? |
| Environmental Science | Something's Fishy About That Fertilizer |
| Environmental Science | The Big Dig |
| Environmental Science | The Receding Night: The Effect of Artificial Light on the Migration Pattern of Daphnia |
| Environmental Science | What Electric Bills Can Tell You About Energy Use |
| Genomics | Are Fingerprint Patterns Inherited? |
| Genomics | Bioinformatics – The Perfect Marriage of Computer Science & Medicine |
| Genomics | BLASTing Flu Viruses |
| Genomics | Computational Exploration of Protein Function |
| Genomics | How Much DNA Can You Pack into a Cell? |
| Genomics | Investigate Native Plant Evolution with Chloroplast Sequencing |
| Genomics | Learning Your A, G, C's (and T, too) |
| Genomics | Pedigree Analysis: A Family Tree of Traits |
| Genomics | The Cancer Genome Anatomy Project |
| Genomics | The Tree of Life – II (advanced) |
| Genomics | The Tree of Life – I (basic) |
| Genomics | Which Animals Have Genome Projects? |
| Genomics | Who Has the Biggest Genome? |
| Geology | A Ground-Breaking Revelation: Testing Compression Waves in Various Circumstances |
| Geology | Beach Bum Science: Compression of Wet Sand |
| Geology | Factors that Affect the Transfer of Force through Saturated Soil |
| Geology | Get Some Practice at 'Fossil' Reconstruction with Owl Pellets |
| Geology | Growing a Soil Menagerie |
| Geology | How Fast Do Seismic Waves Travel? |
| Geology | Is There a Whole Lot of Shaking Going On? Make Your Own Seismograph and Find Out! |
| Geology | Lichenometry: An Accessible Method for Dating Recent History (Geological and Manmade) |
| Geology | Locating an Earthquake Using a Global Seismic Network |
| Geology | Locating the Epicenter of an Earthquake |
| Geology | Measuring the Diameter of the Earth's Core with Seismic Waves Around the Globe |
| Geology | Porosity and Particle Size |
| Geology | Ring of Fire 1: What Volcanoes Tell Us About Plate Tectonics |
| Geology | Ring of Fire 2: What Earthquakes Tell Us About Plate Tectonics |
| Geology | Soil Color and Moisture |
| Geology | Soil Compaction |
| Geology | Sorting out Sedimentation |
| Geology | Under Pressure: Sand Under Lateral Compression |
| Geology | Underground Water Flow and Darcy's Law |
| Human Behavior | Apparent Motion & Animation |
| Human Behavior | Calling It Quits: What Is the Most Effective Way to Quit Smoking? |
| Human Behavior | Candy Confusion: Can Small Children Mistake Medicine for Candy? |
| Human Behavior | Correlation Between Relative Pitch and Age, Gender, or Musical Background |
| Human Behavior | Do Preferences Bias Our Choices? |
| Human Behavior | Do the Eyes Have It? |
| Human Behavior | Does a Cell-Phone Conversation Affect Reaction Time? |
| Human Behavior | Fear Factor: Using Pulse Rate to Measure Emotion |
| Human Behavior | Get the Scoop on Stroop |
| Human Behavior | Honesty: How Prevalent Is It? |
| Human Behavior | How Many Numbers Can You Remember? |
| Human Behavior | Interpreting Area Data from Maps vs. Graphs: An Experiment in Visual Perception |
| Human Behavior | Measuring Your Taste Threshold |
| Human Behavior | Measuring Your Threshold of Hearing for Sounds of Different Pitches |
| Human Behavior | Mixing Light to Make Colors |
| Human Behavior | Multitasking: Brain Drain or Boost in Efficiency? |
| Human Behavior | Now You See It, Now You Don't: A Chromatic Adaptation Project |
| Human Behavior | Shaping Your Thoughts? |
| Human Behavior | Testing for Bias in a Photo Lineup |
| Human Behavior | Testing the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony |
| Human Behavior | The Bouba-Kiki Effect |
| Human Behavior | The Brains Behind 'Where's Waldo?' |
| Human Behavior | The Nose Knows Smell but How About Taste? |
| Human Behavior | Twirls, Whirls, Spins, & Turns: The Science & Reflexes of Dizziness |
| Human Behavior | Warped Words and the Stroop Effect |
| Human Behavior | What Conflicting Mental Tasks Reveal About Thinking: The Stroop Effect |
| Human Behavior | What's the Best Method to Communicate Data Graphically?: An Experiment in Visual Perception |
| Mammalian Biology | Are You Left or Right Sided? |
| Mammalian Biology | Breath of Life: Does Exercise Increase Vital Capacity? |
| Mammalian Biology | Do String Players Have Longer Left Fingers? |
| Mammalian Biology | Dog Scents: The Super Nose of Man's Best Friend |
| Mammalian Biology | Dog Smarts: What's Going On Behind Those Puppy-Dog Eyes? |
| Mammalian Biology | Dog Toys: What Makes One a Favorite or a Flop to Fido? |
| Mammalian Biology | Ewww, Dog Breath! Does Active Play Take Your Dog's Breath Away? |
| Mammalian Biology | Heart Rate Recovery Times |
| Mammalian Biology | How Food Supplements Affect Weight Gain of Juvenile Mice |
| Mammalian Biology | Is That Cat Fat? |
| Mammalian Biology | Paw Preference in Pets |
| Mammalian Biology | Predators and Prey: How Do Cats Respond to Bird Sound Recordings? |
| Mammalian Biology | Puppy Proportions: Comparing Growth Spurts and Weight Gain in Your Dog's Early Months |
| Mammalian Biology | Tail Wagging and Brain Lateralization |
| Material Science | Are You Gellin'? ® |
| Material Science | Coke® & Mentos® - Nucleation Goes Nuclear! |
| Material Science | Fallen Arches: The Surprising Strength of Eggshells |
| Material Science | How Does Packaging Affect the Ripening of Fruit? |
| Material Science | Sand Structure: Measuring Density and Porosity of Sand |
| Material Science | Take the Sally Ride TOYchallenge |
| Material Science | The Leaning Tower of Pasta |
| Material Science | Wave Blockers |
| Materials Science | Are Laminates Stronger? |
| Materials Science | Bacterial Resistant Materials and the Best Disinfectant |
| Materials Science | Does Chemical Lightening Affect the Structure of Human Hair? |
| Materials Science | Getting Critical Over Colloids |
| Materials Science | Strength in Numbers? |
| Materials Science | Stressed Out? Take a Break with this Project! |
| Materials Science | The Viscosity of Motor Oil |
| Materials Science | What Material Makes the Most Resonant Soundboard? |
| Materials Science | Which Is the Better Insulation Material? |
| Materials Science | Which Metal Is the Most Resistant to Corrosion? |
| Microbiology | An Aerobic Exercise: Yeast Metabolism with and without Aeration |
| Microbiology | Death Rays: What Duration of Ultraviolet Exposure Kills Bacteria? |
| Microbiology | Do Different Dilutions of Disinfectants Affect the Development of Bacterial Resistance? |
| Microbiology | Germ Invasion |
| Microbiology | How Do Food Preservatives Affect the Growth of Microorganisms? |
| Microbiology | How Well Do Disinfectants Work? |
| Microbiology | Minimizing Bacteria in the Thawing and Cooking of Meat |
| Microbiology | Rise to the Occasion: Investigating Requirements for Yeast Fermentation |
| Microbiology | Spread the Soap, Not the Germs |
| Microbiology | The End Zone: Measuring Antimicrobial Effectiveness with Zones of Inhibition |
| Microbiology | Which Acne Medication Can Really Zap That Zit? |
| Microbiology | Yeast Reproduction in Sugar Substitutes |
| Microbiology | Yeasty Beasties |
| Microbiology | Yogurt Cultures |
| Ocean Sciences | Can Water Float on Water? |
| Ocean Sciences | Do Hurricanes Cool the Ocean? |
| Ocean Sciences | Do Warmer Seas Make Stronger Hurricanes? |
| Ocean Sciences | Harbor Porpoise Movement |
| Ocean Sciences | Harmful Algal Blooms in the Chesapeake Bay |
| Ocean Sciences | How Salty is the Sea? |
| Ocean Sciences | Hurricanes and Climate |
| Ocean Sciences | Primary Productivity and Plankton |
| Ocean Sciences | Timing the Tides |
| Ocean Sciences | Try This Eggsperiment to Measure the Density of Salt Water |
| Pharmacology / Toxicology | Caffeine and Heart Rate: A Pharmacological Study Using Daphnia magna |
| Pharmacology / Toxicology | Can Garlic Prevent Crown Gall? |
| Pharmacology / Toxicology | Using Daphnia to Monitor Water Toxicity |
| Pharmacology / Toxicology | What is the Most Effective Treatment for Whitefly Infestations on Plants? |
| Photography, Digital Photography & Video | Bit Depth, Colors and Digital Photos |
| Photography, Digital Photography & Video | Camera Lens Testing |
| Photography, Digital Photography & Video | Color Profiles |
| Photography, Digital Photography & Video | Color Saturation |
| Photography, Digital Photography & Video | Digital Photo Contrast |
| Photography, Digital Photography & Video | Digital Photo Resolution |
| Photography, Digital Photography & Video | Digital Photos and Dynamic Range |
| Photography, Digital Photography & Video | Digital Pinhole Camera |
| Photography, Digital Photography & Video | Focusing Your Flash for 'Freezing' Motion |
| Photography, Digital Photography & Video | Macro for Micro? |
| Photography, Digital Photography & Video | Measuring the Speed of Moving Objects with Stroboscopic Photography |
| Photography, Digital Photography & Video | Pinholes, Light and Aperture Size |
| Photography, Digital Photography & Video | Seeing Beyond the Visible: Photography with Near Infrared Illumination |
| Photography, Digital Photography & Video | The Golden Rules of Photography |
| Physics | A Battery That Makes Cents |
| Physics | A Magnifying Discovery |
| Physics | Balancing the Load: The See-Saw as a Simple Machine |
| Physics | Blowing Bottletops: Making Music with Glass Bottles |
| Physics | Build a Motorboat Powered by Surface Tension |
| Physics | Centripetal Force |
| Physics | Distance and Constant Acceleration |
| Physics | Distance and Speed of Rolling Objects Measured from Video Recordings |
| Physics | Do-Re-Mi with Straws |
| Physics | Don't You Fret! Standing Waves on a Guitar |
| Physics | Extreme Sounds: Lessons in a Noisy World |
| Physics | Forensics - A Science Fair Whodunit! |
| Physics | Frequency-Dependent Sound Absorption |
| Physics | Give It a Lift with a Lever |
| Physics | Going the Distance: Launch Angles & Projectile Trajectory |
| Physics | Guitar Fundamentals: Wavelength, Frequency, & Speed |
| Physics | How Does Color Affect Heating by Absorption of Light? |
| Physics | How the Strength of a Magnet Varies with Temperature |
| Physics | How to Make a Guitar Sing |
| Physics | How to Make a Piano Sing |
| Physics | Investigating the 'Mpemba Effect': Can Hot Water Freeze Faster than Cold Water? |
| Physics | Light Energy & Frequency |
| Physics | Magnets and Charge |
| Physics | Measuring Sugar Content of a Liquid with a Laser Pointer |
| Physics | Measuring the Speed of 'Light' with a Microwave Oven |
| Physics | Measuring the Surface Tension of Water |
| Physics | Outer Space, The Silent Frontier: An Experiment on Sound Waves |
| Physics | Pick This Project! |
| Physics | Rainbow Fire |
| Physics | Roller Coaster Marbles: Converting Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy |
| Physics | Roller Coaster Marbles: How Much Height to Loop the Loop? |
| Physics | Simple Harmonic Motion in a Spring-Mass System |
| Physics | Singing Wine Glasses |
| Physics | Slip Sliding Away: Experimenting with Friction |
| Physics | Solid Motor Rocket Propulsion |
| Physics | Spare-Change Circus: Walking Coins on a (Vertical!) 'High Wire' |
| Physics | Supercooling Water and Snap Freezing |
| Physics | Swing Low: Investigate the Motion of a Pendulum |
| Physics | Technicolor Shadows: Lessons in Light and Color |
| Physics | The Joly Photometer: Measuring Light Intensity Using the Inverse Square Law |
| Physics | Using a Laser Pointer to Measure the Data Track Spacing on CDs and DVDs |
| Physics | Using a Laser to Measure the Speed of Light in Jello |
| Physics | What Goes Up, Must Come Down: Conduct Galileo's Famous Falling Objects Experiment |
| Physics | What is the Maximum Intermediate Height for a Siphon? |
| Physics | What's the Fastest Way to Cool a Soda? |
| Plant Biology | Attack of the Killer Cabbage Clones |
| Plant Biology | Bacteria Can Fix It! A Comparison of Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria and Nitrogen Fertilizers |
| Plant Biology | Cryopreservation: Freezing Plant Tissues |
| Plant Biology | Do Potatoes Regulate the Formation of New Roots? |
| Plant Biology | Earthworm Castings -- The Ideal Proportion in Soil for Young Garden Plants |
| Plant Biology | Earthworms: Nature's Tiller? |
| Plant Biology | Gone With the Wind: An Experiment on Seed and Fruit Dispersal |
| Plant Biology | Growing, Growing, Gone! An Experiment on Nitrogen Fertilizers |
| Plant Biology | How Do Roots Grow When the Direction of Gravity Changes? |
| Plant Biology | How Many Seeds Do Different Types of Fruit Produce? |
| Plant Biology | Humic Acid and the Optimum Soil for Plants |
| Plant Biology | It's Crowded in Here! A Study of Plant Population Density |
| Plant Biology | Leaves and Light |
| Plant Biology | One Bad Apple Spoils the Whole Bunch: An Experiment on the Plant Hormone Ethylene |
| Plant Biology | Plants Are On The Move! A Study of Gravitropism |
| Plant Biology | Radiant Radish Seeds |
| Plant Biology | Shoots: How do Mint Plants Branch to Form New Stems? |
| Plant Biology | Size vs. Depth: The Relationship Between the Size of a Seed and Its Ideal Planting Depth |
| Plant Biology | Suck It Up: Capillary Action of Water in Plants |
| Plant Biology | The Effect of Hydrogen Peroxide on the Rooting of Plant Cuttings and Seed Germination |
| Plant Biology | What Color Are the Leaves Really Turning? |
| Pure Mathematics | Chain Reaction: Inversion and the Pappus Chain Theorem |
| Pure Mathematics | Devising an Algorithm for Solving Rubik's Cube |
| Pure Mathematics | Dice Probabilities |
| Pure Mathematics | Divide and Conquer: Proving Pick's Theorem for Lattice Polygons |
| Pure Mathematics | Estimation and Population Size |
| Pure Mathematics | Exploring Fractals |
| Pure Mathematics | Frequency of Outcomes in a Small Number of Trials |
| Pure Mathematics | Gigantic, Invisible Triangles: Measuring Height (or Altitude) with an Inclinometer |
| Pure Mathematics | How do Baseball Stadium Dimensions Affect Batting Statistics? |
| Pure Mathematics | Is There Such a Thing as Streakiness in Baseball? |
| Pure Mathematics | Juice Box Geometry |
| Pure Mathematics | M&M Geometry |
| Pure Mathematics | M&M Math |
| Pure Mathematics | Making Patterns with Rubik's Cube |
| Pure Mathematics | Measuring Up |
| Pure Mathematics | Pick a Card, Any Card |
| Pure Mathematics | Play-Doh Math |
| Pure Mathematics | Shape Changing with the CyberSquad |
| Pure Mathematics | Taking Off on a Tangent |
| Pure Mathematics | Tessellation: Tiling Patterns to Fill a Two-Dimensional Space |
| Pure Mathematics | The Birthday Paradox |
| Pure Mathematics | The Effects of Card Counting on a Simple Card Game |
| Pure Mathematics | Thinking in (Semi-)Circles: The Area of the Arbelos |
| Pure Mathematics | Throwing You Some Curves: Is Red or Blue Longer? |
| Pure Mathematics | Tiling with Spidrons |
| Pure Mathematics | What Makes a Team's Winning Percentage Deviate from the Pythagorean Relationship? |
| Pure Mathematics | What's the Fastest Way to Solve Rubik's Cube? |
| Sociology | Boys and Girls All Around the Town |
| Sociology | Decisions, Decisions: Judging a Book by Its Cover? |
| Sociology | How Do Fears Change with Age? |
| Sociology | Only If They Think They Can Get Away with It? |
| Sociology | Spending Habits: Tightwads vs. Spendthrifts |
| Sociology | Teachers Rule! |
| Sociology | Testing Behavioral Incentives |
| Sociology | Testing How Fashion Impacts the Behavior of Others Around Us |
| Sociology | The Case of Mistaken Identity |
| Sports Science | A Cure for Hooks and Slices? Asymmetric Dimple Patterns and Golf Ball Flight |
| Sports Science | Are More Expensive Golf Balls Worth It? |
| Sports Science | Back and Forth to Go Forward: A Snake on Wheels? |
| Sports Science | Balancing Act: Finding Your Center of Gravity |
| Sports Science | Baseball Bat Debate: What's Better, Wood or Aluminum? |
| Sports Science | Crossed Up: Does Crossed Hand/Eye Dominance Affect Basketball Shooting Percentage? |
| Sports Science | Golf Clubs, Loft Angle, and Distance |
| Sports Science | Heart Health: How Does Heart Rate Change with Exercise? |
| Sports Science | Jumping Distance |
| Sports Science | Keeping Up |
| Sports Science | Nothing But Net: The Science of Shooting Hoops |
| Sports Science | Power Kicks: The Physics of Martial Arts |
| Sports Science | Skateboard Extremes: Which Wheels are Best for Speed & Turns? |
| Sports Science | Take the Sally Ride TOYchallenge |
| Sports Science | Tee Time: How Does Tee Height Affect Driving Distance? |
| Sports Science | The Brain-Body Connection: Can Exercise Really Make Our Brains Work Better? |
| Sports Science | Think Fast! |
| Sports Science | Tightening the Turns in Speed Skating: Lessons in Centripetal Force & Balance |
| Sports Science | Under Pressure: Ball Bouncing Dynamics |
| Sports Science | Which Team Batting Statistic Predicts Run Production Best? |
| Video & Computer Games | Follow the Bouncing Ball: A Web Animation Project |
| Video & Computer Games | Image Compression vs. Image Quality: Finding the Best Tradeoff |
| Video & Computer Games | Programming NANORGs in a Virtual World |
| Video & Computer Games | The Gaming Master |
| Weather & Atmosphere | Dry Spells, Wet Spells: How Common Are They? |
| Weather & Atmosphere | From Gas to Rust: Measuring the Oxygen Content of Air |
| Weather & Atmosphere | How Do Clouds Form? |
| Weather & Atmosphere | How Do the Seasons Change in Each Hemisphere? |
| Weather & Atmosphere | How Does a Wind Meter Work? |
| Weather & Atmosphere | How Does Atmospheric Temperature Affect the Water Content of Snow? |
| Weather & Atmosphere | Make a Hygrometer with Strands of Hair |
| Weather & Atmosphere | Make Your Own Psychrometer |
| Weather & Atmosphere | Predicting the Weather |
| Weather & Atmosphere | Tracking Geomagnetic Storms in the Ionosphere |
| Weather & Atmosphere | Using Weather Balloon Data to Map Atmospheric Temperature |
| Weather & Atmosphere | Weather and Climate in Your Neighborhood |
| Zoology | Animal Magnetism: Do Magnets Affect Regeneration in Planaria? |
| Zoology | Antlion Pits in Open Sand or Under Leaf Cover |
| Zoology | Bones and Calcium |
| Zoology | Can Copper Foil Snails? |
| Zoology | Do Milkweed Bugs Show a Color Preference for Egg-Laying Sites? |
| Zoology | Does Temperature Affect the Rate of Butterfly Development? |
| Zoology | Drawing Circles Around Ants |
| Zoology | Eeeeew! Maggot Mass Temperature |
| Zoology | Effects of Exercise: Changes in Carbon Dioxide Output |
| Zoology | Eggs and Hen's Diet: Can You Get Bigger Eggs for Peanuts? |
| Zoology | Finding Phyla |
| Zoology | Go and Stop? Ant Traffic Signals |
| Zoology | How Much Do Different Pet Species Eat Compared to Each Other? |
| Zoology | How Much Worm Is a Worm? |
| Zoology | M&M Survival Challenge |
| Zoology | Making Species Maps |
| Zoology | Testing Ant Repellents |
| Zoology | What Are You Blubbering About? |
| Zoology | What Is Home Sweet Home to a Bug? |
| Zoology | What Seeds Do Birds Prefer to Eat? |
| Zoology | Where Do Lizards Go for Lunch? |
| Zoology | Worm Hunt: Isolating Soil Nematodes from Your Backyard |
