This animation clearly explains the moon phases visually.

Did you know? No hurricane has ever crossed the equator, due to the Coriolis force. [🎞️ Robert Rohde]

Here at Science Sparks, we try to keep all our experiments as simple as possible, but the list of materials can be a little overwhelming. I've compiled a list of my favourite two-ingredient science experiments to make science at home easier than ever. science-sparks.com/easy-two-…

Using VR technology to experience heart surgery from the surgeon's perspective. An incredible glimpse into the future of healthcare and medical training. #STEM #VirtualReality #BigBangFair @aa_science @AlcesterAcademy

Things you love to see 😍 #BigBangFair #NEC @aa_science @AlcesterAcademy

Mind-blowing breakthrough: Scientists just captured the first-ever image of an electron’s “orbit” inside a hydrogen atom!Peering into the absolute tiniest building blocks of matter has always been insanely difficult — not only because atoms are unimaginably small, but because the quantum world plays by bizarre rules. Electrons don’t zip around in neat little planetary paths like old textbooks suggested. Instead, they exist as fuzzy probability clouds governed by quantum physics.And then there’s the Heisenberg uncertainty principle: the very act of trying to observe something this small can change its behavior.Now, thanks to a groundbreaking new “quantum microscope” technique called photoionization microscopy, researchers have done what was once thought impossible. They’ve visualized the nodal structure of an excited electron’s wave function in a hydrogen atom — essentially photographing the probability cloud where the electron is most likely to be found. The result? A stunning, direct look at one of nature’s most fundamental quantum states. This isn’t a classical photo of a single electron whizzing around — it’s a mapped interference pattern revealing the beautiful, probabilistic reality of the quantum realm. Reality is weirder (and more beautiful) than we ever imagined.

Belgian visual artist Carole Louis is the creator of "Through Thousands," a sculpture constructed from thousands of plastic straws. Like fiber optics, basically thousands of tiny “straws” guiding light across huge distances at near-light speed.

It's here and it's beautiful! The new limited edition Technician not Magician gilt enamel badge with FREE pin keeper and allen key! We have less than 55 of these in stock and when they are all sold this design will not return! store.preproom.org/product/t…

30,000 hours of footage, equivalent to 3 years and 7 months, were filmed to capture the blooming of 77 types of flowers, and the result is spectacular.

🚨: This isn't lightning. It's a giant electrical discharge called a Red Sprite — one of the rarest weather phenomena visible from Earth.

🚨: The James Webb Space Telescope has made perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The telescope's observations validate an intriguing theory that our entire Universe might be inside a black hole. "This discovery could blow your mind"

As part of the reproduction curriculum, Year 7 looked at the life cycle of butterflies. We were able to hatch and release a beautiful Painted Lady butterfly this week (in between the rain storms😆) @AlcesterAcademy @aa_science

Oxygen production of mango leaf

The microorganism has a chainsaw like mouth

BREAKING NEWS🚨: 'Negative time' confirmed: Mind-bending experiment shows light can exit a cloud of atoms before it enters, thanks to quantum physics quirk

Yr 9 will be doing algal balls later this week. We bought in some algae to grow up before half term. Mrs L wisely put it on a lamp in a cold room during the break. That worked very well and it appears to be happy and healthy. Phew!

Mesmerizing counter-rotating vortices produced by a burning incense stick. 📽: ALoBoi_Music/reddit

Professor Eric Laithwaite shows what happens when a very heavy wheel (20 kg) is spun up to 2,500 rpm.

Here is a new Physics app on diffraction gratings. drjonesphysics.com/grating1