sonic waves

Stephen Hawking once theorized that black holes would emit a stream of electromagnetic radiation named, what else, Hawking Radiation. However, in the 35 years since Hawking made his prediction, no one has observed the phenomena. Now, a team of Israeli scientists are working on a way to make their own Hawking Radiation by creating an artificial black hole in their lab.

Summer means sunshine and here are a couple of neat projects that you can quickly build for exploring two different properties of the sun: radio spectrum analysis and solar radiation measurement. While both of these projects are very simple in their construction, you can still perform crude data collection with each one. Throw in some exciting solar experiments and now youre talking daytime science fun for entertaining youngsters during the dog days of summer.