Skip to main content

Up Next

How Do We Know How Old the Earth Is?

How Do We Know How Old the Earth Is?

Season 4 Episode 31
4:27
The Chemistry of Hollywood Fake Blood

The Chemistry of Hollywood Fake Blood

Season 4 Episode 32
4:28
How Does Glassblowing Work?

How Does Glassblowing Work?

Season 4 Episode 34
3:59
How Do Hand Sanitizers Work?

How Do Hand Sanitizers Work?

Season 4 Episode 35
3:21
How Does Xanax Work?

How Does Xanax Work?

Season 4 Episode 36
4:07
Why Do Some People Hate Cilantro?

Why Do Some People Hate Cilantro?

Season 4 Episode 37
2:44
The One Where We Put Stuff in Acid

The One Where We Put Stuff in Acid

Season 4 Episode 38
5:13
The Periodic Table Table

The Periodic Table Table

Season 4 Episode 39
5:39
Back to Show
Reactions

3 Egg-cellently Weird Science Experiments

Season 4 Episode 29

We walk you through the chemistry behind protein denaturing, making an egg bounce, and creating your own green eggs (minus the ham--that's all on you). So, we're coming at you with three kitchen egg demos that will bounce, denature, and colorize you into total chemical bewilderment!

Support Provided By
Season
How Oxygen Masks Brought Down a Plane
6:31
How did something meant to keep you safe end up killing over 100 people?
Extracting Gold from Seawater
5:39
We try to find some of the 700 trillion dollars worth of gold in the ocean.
I Created an Oil Spill in My House
7:36
Bacteria could be what save us from ourselves.
Death and Decomposition
7:04
Are humans destroying the circle of life?
Better Pizza Through Chemistry
6:20
We show you how two simple changes can turn cardboard-y pizza into award winning pie.
Science of Concrete & the Surfside Condo Collapse
7:19
We discover how the Surfside Condominium—a modern building built in 1981—fail.
Are We Standing on a Quadrillion Tons of Diamonds?
7:38
But the furthest we’ve traveled is 7 miles down, so how could we know that?
Why is There Plastic in Our Rain?
6:43
Every year more than 1,000 tons of plastic rains down onto national parks and wilderness.
We Tried to Preserve a Strawberry Forever. Things Got…Ugly
8:05
See what happens when we try to make a strawberry last forever.
How Does Sunscreen Work?
7:38
Can it actually stop us from getting wrinkles or skin cancer? We find out!
How Carbon Capture Works
7:39
Removing CO2 from our atmosphere can mean big business.
How Lead (Maybe?) Caused the Downfall of the Roman Empire
5:55
We unwrap the possibility that lead caused the Roman Empire’s collapse.
Active loading indicator