Join Professor Shakhashiri and friends in his lab for a series of captivating scientific and artistic demonstrations.
Airs Thursday at 2 a.m. beginning 3/14.
- #1601 – University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry Professor Bassam Shakhashiri and his friends show that mixing chemicals can make liquids change color, become solid, expand and light up. All this, and a tuneful interlude too!
- #1602 – In this science entertainment, University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry Professor Bassam Shakhashiri is joined by scientist Rodney Schreiner to display balloons that explode, a book that burns, bottles that bang, and metals that flash, flame, and sing.
- #1701 – Renowned science communicator and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri presents a series of silver experiments. Silver solutions darken and brighten, tarnished silver regains its shine, and silver needles grow on a copper tree. Other solutions change colors, too, as do flames and gases. He is joined by special guests in this fun-filled show, packed with the sights and sounds of science.
- #1702 – In this science entertainment program, renowned science communicator and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri shares fun experiments – liquids change color, balls levitate, and bottles pop their corks. He is joined by special guests who show how liquids can change color, how we can see what isn’t there, and who entertain us with an operatic interlude. This fun-filled show is packed with the sights and sounds of science.
- #1801 – University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Professor Bassam Shakhashiri and his friends present experiments with an assortment of gases. Carbon dioxide shows its many sides when it changes the colors of solutions, generates a plume of fog, inflates a rubber bulb, and puts out fires. Bubbles filled with methane gas rise and ignite in balls of flame. Oxygen gas turns into a liquid that sticks to a magnet.
- #1802 – Join renowned science communicator and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Bassam Shakhashiri as he shows the colorful side of metals. Solutions of metals change colors when mixed with other solutions. Colorful flames blaze when solutions of metals are sprayed into them. Metal wires sing and a metal pipe howls. He is joined by special guests in this fun-filled show, packed with the sights and sounds of science.