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Atmosphere

Use a little bit of math to make a bonus accessory for your globe of the earth—an atmosphere, to scale.

Discover why the sky is blue and the sunset is red.

Create a convection cell inside a CD case.

Give flight a spin with the Magnus effect.

Get into air pressure—literally.

Make a portable cloud in a bottle: Now you see it, now you don’t!

Model the carbon cycle and its principal reservoirs and flow rates using rice.

Why is the sky blue? That's a sticky question.

Watch the rise and fall of hot and cold fluids.

Levitating magnets show how Earth’s atmosphere stacks up.

Explore a famous environmental data set to learn about climate change.

How I wonder what you are?

Get all wrapped up in a lesson about your skin.

Have a gas with the conservation of mass.