Don't use your skin as detector of ultra-violet light (UV), try experimenting with Energy Beads or UV Beads. These indicator beads change color when exposed to UV light. It's an amazing way to test the effectiveness of sun screen or to see if UV light is really blocked out by filters in sun glasses.

Patches of red pine trees blanket Colorado's high country and serve as a warning for an an incredible forest fire that will be unlike anything the state of Colorado has ever experienced. You can’t blame this one on drought, but instead a tiny little black beetle living just under the bark. According to Colorado State forestry officials, an estimated 750,000 acres of trees have been killed by the Mountain Pine Beetle… and this is just the beginning.

Steve's son, Jack Spangler, decided that it is just too hard to pour soft drinks by turning a 2-liter bottle of soda upside down. The bottle is just too heavy. So Jack decided to use the power of Mentos and Diet Coke to fill 6 glasses at once and solve his problem.

Steve Spangler could not resist the temptation to mix up his own formula for fun on 4th of July. Steve celebrates the Fourth with some liquid fireworks and a new 4th of July tradition... watermelon carving.

Who said that science enthusiasts have to stay cooped up in a dark and dingy lab? Steve Spangler demonstrates how to have science fun in the sun.

What do you do after finishing a can of soda? You crush the can and recycle it. Some people crush it with their hands while others come up with more creative methods using their feet or head. You don't need to use your body, learn how to use the power of air pressure to flatten a can.

If you have watched the Ellen Show you have seen Steve Spangler teach Ellen how to do some cool science stuff... but there were some things that you didn't see. Steve has the behind-the-scenes scoop.

Make a rubber band rigid, shatter a bicycle tube and turn your breath into a liquid. These are just a few of the amazing demonstrations that are available to teachers in the Denver metro area as part of the CARE Program.

A special cryogenics demonstration kit is available to teachers in the Denver metro area by calling the National Institute of Standards and Technology C.A.R.E. program in Boulder at (303) 497-3244 or you can go to the CARE website.

In his never ending search for fun things to do at the grocery store Steve Spangler has a science illusion that is guaranteed to fool some unsuspecting person in the produce department.

With the start of summer comes the dangers of lightning. Your chances of being struck by lightning in the United States are 1 in 600,000. But here in Colorado, lightning is the number one life threatening weather hazard.