Scientific Brain Teasers

Science Puzzles

One question, one answer, one idea worth thinking about. Reason it out, reveal the answer, then watch the remastered episodes that explore the science behind it.

Can a swamp clean dirty water?

Can Sound Turn a Corner but Light Cannot?

Can You Crack Nature’s Pattern?

Can You Mix It Back?

Can You Read the Volcano’s Warning Signs?

Can You Spot the Bad Experiment?

Could a Blue Whale Survive on Land?

Could You Hear an Explosion in Space?

Could You Jump Over a House on the Moon?

Hot Tea, Cold Milk: When Should You Add the Milk?

How Does a Flower Trick a Bee?

How Does a Plane Stay Up?

Ice Cream Causes Sunburn: True or False?

Ice in a Full Glass: Will It Overflow?

Solid, Liquid or Both?

What Carved This Canyon?

What Does the Fingerprint Tell You?

What’s Hiding in a Drop of Pond Water?

Where Did the Energy Go?

Which Animal Doesn’t Belong?

Which Bulb Burns Brighter?

Which Cloud Brings the Rain?

Which Comes First, the Tadpole or the Frog?

Which Cools Faster, the Big Mug or the Small Cup?

Which Hits the Ground First?

Which Magnet Wins the Tug of War?

Which Measurement Can You Trust?

Which Shape Holds the Most Weight?

Which Way Does the Balloon Lean When the Car Brakes?

Which Way Does the Blood Go?

Which Way Does the Storm Spin?

Which Way Is Down in Space?

Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself?

Why Did the Tortoises Grow So Big?

Why Do Earthquakes Happen Where They Do?

Why Do Stars Twinkle but Planets Don’t?

Why Do Your Eyes Fall for This Trick?

Why Does the Moon Change Shape?

Why Does the Sea Breeze Turn Around at Night?

Why Does the Spinning Skater Speed Up?

Why Does the Straw Look Bent?

Why Doesn’t the Bridge Fall Down?

Why Doesn’t the Sun Burn Out Like a Fire?

Why Doesn’t the Water Fall Out?

Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?

Why Is the Desert Freezing at Night?

Why Is the Sea Salty but the Rain Is Not?