Curious Minds Science Lab

From atoms and fission to power plants and the history of the nuclear age. Includes interactive simulations and a 10-question quiz.

From photons and rainbows to lasers, fibre optics, and the speed of light. Discover the history of how we came to understand light, and explore its weird quantum secrets. Includes interactive simulations and a 10-question quiz.

How living things are built, how DNA carries the code of life, and how modern biology is changing medicine and the world. Covers DNA structure, genetics, evolution, DNA vs RNA, and the CRISPR revolution. Includes interactive simulations and a 10-question quiz.

From the Big Bang to black holes, nebulae, and the search for life beyond Earth. Journey through our solar system, meet legendary astronauts, and explore the most astonishing phenomena in the cosmos. Includes interactive tools and a 10-question quiz.

Why do lights turn on? How do power plants and batteries work? Explore circuits, conductors and insulators, magnets, Earth's magnetic field, and floating maglev trains. Includes interactive simulations and a 10-question quiz.

What your brain does, the parts it is built from, and how neurons fire messages at 430 km/h. Covers memory and learning, reaction time and decision making, the brain–body connection, and how exercise and sleep keep it sharp. Includes five hands-on activities you play right in the page — a reaction-time lab, a memory span test and a Stroop challenge — plus a 10-question quiz.

Your body's secret defence force. Covers the first line of defence (skin, mucus, tears and stomach acid) and the second line (inflammation, fever and white blood cells), then meets the cell crew — macrophages, neutrophils, T cells, B cells and antibodies — and finishes with bacteria versus viruses, vaccines, allergies and staying healthy. Includes six hands-on activities built right into the page, including an antibody lock-and-key game and a herd immunity simulator, plus a 10-question quiz.

The biggest machine you live inside. Meet its five moving parts and the greenhouse effect that keeps Earth liveable, then storms, lightning and extreme weather, the ocean as Earth's heat engine, ice and the planet's reflective shield, and the forests and plankton that quietly mop up half our carbon — finishing with how humans are changing the climate and what is already being fixed. Includes eight hands-on activities built into the page, among them a greenhouse-blanket lab, a lightning-distance game and an albedo tipping-point simulator, plus a 10-question quiz.