Upside-down science
Can we copy spiders and stick ourselves upside-down? Explore the science of ceiling-walkers.
Fly on the ceiling TV
Adam goes up the wall asking how do flies walk on ceilings?
Adam, some Australians, a pair of magnets - it all comes together in our ceiling-walkers diary.
October 22nd
The Science Shack is put up for the first time outside the magnificent Magna Science Centre
Try and guess which of the two buildings had just won the Royal Institute of British Architects' national award for the most impressive building of the year?
Inside the shack Adam will explain the scientific principles explored in 'How do flies walk on the ceiling?' before this afternoon's attempts in The Big Build to walk upside down.
The Science Shack stands as a monument to the idea behind the series, as series director Paul Bader explained amidst a confused team of shed builders who seemed to have lost the instructions:
'You ask us a scientific question and we'll do the experiment to answer it. So no matter how ambitious or ludicrous or silly we'll build the thing for you'
October 23rd
7am
Adam arrives bursting with energy as ever and approves the shack design.
8am
In the Magna workshop the scaffolding for the upside down racetrack is almost built ready for this afternoon's test run.
9am
Plastic tubes attached to yoghurt pots, four vacuum cleaners, suction pads and magnets are strewn across the shed floor as Adam prepares to make sense of it all.
10am
Frogs and geckos arrive.
11am
Adam meets the frogs and geckos.
12 noon
Adam confronts the Australian flying frogs and explains how they use their whole bodies as suction cups to walk upside down.
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Content last updated: 30/05/2006
