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Small rim glass (wine glass works best) Baby oil. Any brand. You will need enough to fill the glass. Glass test tube Parent supervision Note: If you do not have any glass test tubes, you can use a ...

Hate to burst your bubble, glass lab gear. But plastic bubble wrap also works pretty well at running science experiments. Scientists at Harvard University have figured out a way to use these petite ...

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The human eye, says Biology Professor George Wald of Harvard, is like a camera, with a slow film for bright light and a fast film for dim light. At a Cleveland meeting of the Society of Biological ...

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