Head Rush

Kari Byron makes plasma using grapes and explores the science of sound with Metallica. Find out what chopped liver & hydrogen peroxide can do and how rust can be helpful. Solve the mysteries of how hummingbirds hover and the gruesome task of mummy making.

Kari Byron becomes a high voltage human electricity conductor. A water-filled trashcan is destroyed, and a steel wool pad is popped in a microwave. Discover the secret to skipping stones, shooting hoops, repelling sharks and meet the world's slimiest fish.

Kari Byron makes amazing art using milk. Find out why the Archer Fish is nature's dead shot, why methane is a greenhouse gas and how to survive a thousand degree flame. Then discover how Geckos clean their eyes, and how deep the deepest ocean is.

Check out cool science demos as Head Rush Host Kari Byron makes a magnet-powered boat, and discovers how mood rings work. Plus, see how hydrofoils hover, how big Planet Jupiter is, and find out what gives natural silk its awesome sheen.

Kari Byron creates a cornstarch-powered flamethrower. Find out how maggots can save your life, and how Flies defeat Fire Ants in a fight to the death. Discover what happens when you pop a potato chip bag in a microwave.

Kari Byron uses cool chemistry to make monster toothpaste. Discover tricks to revealing fingerprints and find out what plant uses smell to repel bees. How does an octopus mate with its arms? What happens to a soda bottle when you hit the top the top?

Kari Byron shines a laser into a water fountain and gets surprising results. Find out how a Mars Explorer survives a Martian Atmosphere. And discover what makes a frog levitate. Then, what is Dark Matter? What makes interleaved books hard to pull apart?

Kari Byron turns a regular fire into a flaming tornado. Move a plank with a charged up balloon. Buzz your brain with a ping-pong ball and funnel. Then, figure out what happens to a bubble in zero gravity, and how an Elephantnose Fish finds its lunch.

Kari Byron makes metronomes tick in time and shows how boomerangs fly in Space. Shrimps hit the treadmill and whips crack at supersonic speed. Find out what it means to fall from an airplane at terminal velocity and poke pencils through water-filled bags.

In a Head Rush special, Kari Byron sends her pal Andrew Hendrix to St Louis, MO to report on the 20th FIRST Robotics Championship. With an appearance by rapper will.i.am, more than 500 schools from around the world compete to see who's built the best bot.