Facts You Can Feel Blog

Science Space, in partnership with South32, is excited to share our recent collaboration – TAKEAWAY STEM.

We are overjoyed to be open to the public again.

Dear Science Space Friends,

Botanists have used flower pressing for hundreds of years. Create your own mini flower press to preserve flowers, leaves and buds from around your playground or backyard. Did you know a botanist is a scientist who studies flowers and plants? As a budding botanist yourself, it is important to collect as much information (or ‘data’) about your samples. This will help with accurate identification in the future and assist scientists with research into where particular plants are found over time.

On Tuesday, Science Space had the pleasure of being selected as a LIVE cross-location for the Channel 9 TODAY show weather segment!

Our special guests this week were just extraordinary. Inspirational and accomplished in their own fields of expertise, both special guests are turning heads in the scientific community in a good way. If your child loves space and has career aspirations in this field be sure to check out these videos.

Have you ever wondered how showmen are able to pull a tablecloth from underneath a stack of glasses or plates? Is it magic? NO! It’s science, my friends. It is all thanks to our friend inertia. Check out this video to see our scientific magic in action and be sure to try this at home with your favourite adult.

Grab your craft mats and a sense of adventure for this next science experiment as it’s about to get messy! In the next installment of Virtual Science Space we take two simple elements and combine them in the ultimate home science explosion – volcanoes!

Sports. One of Australia’s true loves! As we know, sports have different balls of different sizes – many that bounce. In this home science experiment, we learn about the laws of physics in a hands-on way using simply a couple of different sports balls laying around your house. Today’s video is all about energy. Energy is neither created nor destroyed (Newton’s law of conservation of energy). The video is all about transferring energy. We look at what happens when you bounce two different balls of different shapes and sizes..and why! You will be surprised by what happens.