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The Science Museum of the University of Navarra launches the video series "La ciencia desde tu casa" (Science from your home), an outreach project through Twitter.

The aim of these videos is to show in a visual way some physical phenomena and chemical reactions that surround us in our daily lives.

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24/04/20 09:30 Enrique Cobos

The Science Museum of the University of Navarra has prepared ten popular science videos explaining different concepts of physics and chemistry that we can find in our daily lives. Every Friday -from April 24 and during ten sessions- the Science Museum will launch one of these videos through its Twitter account @MuseoCCNN_unav and will also offer more detailed information about each experiment on its website.

"With these videos we pursue three main objectives: to awaken people's curiosity for science; to give a scientific explanation to common phenomena that occur in our daily lives; and to provide the necessary information to carry out simple physics and chemistry experiments at home," says Cristina Sola, professor at the Faculty of Science and scriptwriter and editor of the audiovisual material.

This initiative of the Science Museum University of Navarra is aimed at all audiences, especially children and their families in these days of confinement. "The experiments are simple and can be replicated with materials we have at home. Moreover, the physical and chemical fundamentals behind each experiment are easy to understand for teenagers and adults," adds Dr. Sola.

These videos cover some physics and chemistry concepts such as surface tension, diffusion, polymers, acid-base reactions, redox, and combustion, among others. Dishes, glasses, coins, food coloring, balloons, syringes, droppers, water, baking soda, vinegar, fruit, hairspray, shaving foam, or yeast are some of the materials we will need to perform the experiments at home.

"Physics and chemistry are not only problems that we have to solve in a book. Chemistry and physics are right next to us, you can touch them and you can play with them, in fact it's the best way to learn," Sola concludes.

The "Science from your home" project is part of the Science Museum's STEM strategy to make the teaching of subjects related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics more attractive.