Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)

The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety is the world’s only lab that does full-scale testing of the effects of hail on building materials.

This massive mean machine travels to New Zealand to help researchers understand how different soil types are affected by earthquakes.

Engineer and baseball nut John Borg uses a wind tunnel at Marquette University to try to unravel the mystery of baseball’s toughest pitch, the knuckleball.

Ziya wonders how animals like the Great Argus, the planthopper nymph, and the peacock spider show off.

With help from accident reconstruction specialists, engineering students in Ottawa use a custom bicycle crash dummy to study what happens in a bicycle/automobile crash.

Ruben Ramirez and George Brana are on a quest to rid the Florida Everglades of invasive and destructive Burmese Pythons.

Martin Bacon has built a car that runs on discarded coffee grounds via gasification.

Artist Marieka Walsh uses sand to make amazing animations like you’ve never seen before.

Ziya wonders if Asian elephants, fire ants, and even robots understand teamwork.

Peter Dann and his team of researchers have developed a unique tool to aid them in their study of world’s smallest penguins, Australia’s blue penguins.