Eureka! Lab
A place for discovery
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Summer students dig into crab stomachs
The eelgrass in a Maine bay has been dying off. Two teens caught and dissected green crabs to figure out if this invasive species might be responsible.
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Cookie Science 6: Baking it up
It’s time cookie science hit the ovens. I baked up three different batches of cookies. But I ran into some trouble along the way.
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Chemistry gets cheesy
You might think of cheese as something produced far away. In fact, you can make it at home. It just takes a little bit of kitchen chemistry.
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High school students fill university lab with energy
A Chicago scientist found high school students brought hard work and enthusiasm into his lab.
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Cookie Science 5: ‘Blinding’ your subjects
When designing a cookie experiment, you need to make sure that your tasters can’t tell which cookies they taste.
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Free app for tree ID needs work
Leafsnap is an app that identifies local trees. Unfortunately, the app is difficult to work with and has some technical problems.
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Cookie Science 4: Cookie ethics
I may just be asking people to eat cookies, but if I’m doing science, I also need to make sure I am treating everyone fairly and that no one gets hurt.
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Cookie Science 3: The lab notebook
Every good scientist keeps a lab notebook. It’s a careful record of every step of testing and every observation. A lab notebook means that you can review all details of your work long after its done — and other people can try to verify your findings with their own tests.
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Cookie Science 2: Baking a testable hypothesis
I would like to make a gluten-free cookie that my friend can eat. But to do that, I need to come up with a hypothesis to test.
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Students in lab learn not to fear failure
Scientific papers often look like nothing but success. But two high school students learn that failure can be a step to success. You just have to learn from it.
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Welcome to Cookie Science!
You don’t need a fancy laboratory or equipment to do science. Here, we show you how to conduct experiments at home — even in your kitchen.
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Find floating forests for science
Kelp, a large type of seaweed, provides food and habitat for many ocean creatures. Now, scientists need your help to find out where kelp beds are and how they might be changing.
