Swine flu is in the news: The first pandemic in ages. Swine flu afflicts the able-bodied, unlike regular Flu’s victims most are in their 20-30s. Swine flu is showing up around the US and most disease control centers are concerned.
So naturally, Giant Microbes have made a new Swine Flu Giant Microbe!
Like most Giant Microbes, this […]
Stretch it! Bounce it! Tear it! Shatter it! Discover the amazing and counter-intuitive properties of Thinking Putty in a live demonstration on Saturday, July 11th at 11:30am. Spectrum Scientifics, located at 4403 Main St, will host Philadelphia native and inventor Crazy Aaron as part of Manayunk’s ‘Second Saturday.’ He will be on hand to shatter […]
We’ve shown other folks videos of the Fun Fly Stick in action, but we finally got around to making our own version. It shows a few more tricks the Fun Fly Stick can do, such as lift hair or make a soda can roll!
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Spectrum Scientifics has recently been able to add three great new wood siege weapon models to our product line: A medieval catapult, a working wood trebuchet, and a wood siege tower!. All of these models are made of solid wood and are fully functional. They even include lumps of clay to toss!
First up is the […]
One of the most talked about things we have in the store is the Giant 24″ Gear Clock on our wall behind the check-out counter. Its no surprise really. Words and the website picture can’t do this product justice, so once again we shall turn to video:
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So it turns out that peeling up ordinary Scotch tape in a vacuum chamber produces X-Rays!.
This, we must admit, comes under the ‘did not expect this’ area of science.
Its not just an oddball property, either, it may result in a low cost method of producing X-rays for research. Time will tell.
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A little over 100 years ago, June 30th, 1908 to be exact, a huge explosion took place over Siberia. What caused it was, and still is a mystery.
Specualtion over this even has been sometimes wild, sometimes rational. For a good look at the event have a read over at Archy. Probably the most up-to-date-of-what-we-know article […]
