Name: Wow That's Amazing
Uploaded: 2018
Description: Get ready for mind-bending puzzles, magic tricks, and fascinating science experiments that you can try at home.

Get ready for mind-bending puzzles, magic tricks, and fascinating science experiments that you can try at home.

This playful science series turns puzzles, magic tricks, and hands-on experiments into clear explanations you can follow at home. Explore why water can seem to freeze in midair, how sound shapes sand and fire, and what makes optical illusions fool the brain. Sign up to keep uncovering the science behind each surprising reveal.

Everyday objects become astonishing experiments in sound, water, motion, and illusion.

Find out how yawns can be contagious and explore how the size of vibrations affects the pitch of the sound.

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Contagious Yawns

The kids use balloons to experiment with static electricity and electric charges, centrifugal force to overcome gravity, and much more.

Static Electricity

Let's explore the oscillation of pendulums with stuffed animals and try an experiment using air-based propulsion to power a mini jet boat.

Pendulums

Discover how to use the forces of inertia for some simple magic tricks and how chroma-keying is used to fake photos.

The Forces of Inertia

Let's experiment using cross-contour lines to create the illusion of dimension and find out how the centre of gravity affects balance.

Illusion

Find out how to transform kinetic energy into potential energy in a bouncy ball and use perspective as a simple tool for calculation.

Kinetic Energy

Let's explore the connection between buoyancy force and surface and try a card-based illusion that tricks the brain's perception of length.

Buoyancy Force

How do telescopes use lenses to focus light, and periscopes use mirrors to bounce light? Let's find out!

Telescopes

Find out how GPS tracking uses microwave signals to give information on location and speed and how to detect lies using body signals.

Detecting Lies

Let's explore how soap molecules bond to form bubbles and try a vanishing trick using a box of crayons.

A Vanishing Trick

The kids explore how objects move from areas of high air pressure to areas of low air pressure and how space suits protect astronauts.

Space Suits

Let's explore why humans have evolved opposable thumbs and experiment with creating movie effects using the illusion of forced perspective.

Movie Effects

The kids take on experiments using the centre of gravity to create the illusion of an object rolling uphill.

The Centre of Gravity

Explore how simultaneous contrast can be used to create illusions and why sugar content affects cola density, causing it to sink or float.

Simultaneous Contrast

Explore static electricity with everyday household objects and try magic tricks that use atmospheric pressure and adhesive force.

Magic Tricks

The kids experiment with using air pressure to create propulsion in rockets and explore tricky ways to fold paper into mind-bending shapes.

Air pressure

The kids try different experiments - from the basics of forensic evidence collection to fun photography ideas to fake a vacation.

Fun Photography Ideas

The kids experiment with creating a disco ball out of a dodecahedron and turning a smartphone into a hologram projector.

A Hologram Projector

The kids master experiments and learn about heart rate, how gravity can affect blood pressure, and the phenomenon of afterimages.

Afterimages

The kids explore how sensory deprivation affects the human body and why acrobats rely on their centre of gravity.

Sensory Deprivation

The kids explore an optical illusion the brain can't keep up with and make an easy DIY speaker to amplify a phone's sound.

An Optical Illusion

Let's try a classic card trick that relies on memory and explore the elastic properties of a rubber band ball.

A Card Trick

Let's find out more about transferring sound through vibration across surfaces and how sight can affect our sense of taste.

Transferring Sound

Let's explore some chemical reactions that create pressure-based propulsion and try some new tricks.

Chemical Reactions

Let's experiment with extracting casein protein from milk to make plastic and explore human facial symmetry with mirrors.

Facial Symmetry

Let's try filming a homemade horror movie and find out how to use inertia in a magic trick.