Scienceworks in Melbourne, Australia, and ScienceWorks in Ashland, Oregon, are museums dedicated to educating visitors in science and technology, while providing an entertaining destination for a family outing. Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of approximately 3. ... The Plaza Ashland is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, near Interstate 5 and the California border. ... // What is science? There are various understandings of the word science. According to empiricism, scientific theories are objective, empirically testable, and predictive — they predict empirical results that can be checked and possibly contradicted. ... See also: Innovation By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a level of technological mastery sufficient to leave the surface of the planet for the first time and explore space. ...

Scienceworks in Melbourne, Australia

Scienceworks, located in the suburb of Spotswood, has hands-on experiments, demonstrations,tours, activities, and constantly changing exhibits. Besides the many hands-on exhibits, one famous exhibit is the lighting room, which has 120 seats and has live shows that run for thirty minutes. It features the giant Tesla Coil, which when activated is capable of generating two million volts of electricity, producing three meter lightning bolts. No other science center in the world has such an advanced electricity show. They also have the only digital planetarium in the southern hemisphere. It has a brand new surround sound system, reclining seats, and a 16 meter high dome ceiling. Spotswood is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... A Tesla coil is a category of disruptive discharge coils, named after their inventor, Nikola Tesla. ... Lightning over Pentagon City in Arlington County, Virginia Lightning is a powerful natural electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm. ... Electricity is a general term applied to phenomena involving a fundamental property of matter called an electric charge // Related concepts Lightning strikes during a night-time thunderstorm. ... A planetarium is a theater built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. ... The term hemisphere is used in three different meanings: one-half of the Earth (or other planetary or stellar body; see also New World and Old World) Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere. ...

General Information

Address: 2 Booker Street, Spotswood, Victoria, Australia

Hours: 10:00am - 4:30pm daily. Closed Christmas Day and Good Friday

ScienceWorks in Ashland, Oregon

ScienceWorks is a fun place for people of all ages to attend, whether it be to bring your child in to learn how to stick their hand through a gigantic bubble, to seeing a demonstration of lighting a dollar on fire and seeing it not burn. ScienceWorks exhibits from Ashland have received national and international attention and have been sold to the Singapore Science Center, Technopolis in Belgium, Miami Museum of Science, Calgary Science Centre and and many museums in the U.S. Most of the exhibits are built in-house at their state-of-the-art fabrication center. They include the Shadow Wall, where you can pose in front of the wall, and watch the strobe light capture your shadow. There is the bubble-ology room, where you can surround yourself with a bubble, stick your arm through a bubble without it breaking, and make long bubble tubes. Make an Impression is a 5-foot high wall made of 65,000 plastic "pins." Push up against it and you'll get an impression of your face, hands, or entire body in any pose you desire. Technopolis is a term coined from the word technology and the suffix -polis, which means city in Greek. ... Fabrication may refer to more than one thing: Fabrication (metal) Semiconductor device fabrication Lie Fiction Fable This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A strobe light (Strobe) is a device used to produces regular flashes of very intense white light and is closely related to a common camera flash. ...

General Information

Address: 1500 East Main Street, Ashland, Oregon

Hours: Wednesday through Saturday 10am - 4pm and Sunday 12pm - 4pm. Closed on major holidays.

External links

• Australia's Scienceworks website
• Oregon's ScienceWorks website