Bring your PC alive with Open2

Explore yourself, and your world, with our interactive features:

Supercharge your studying

Everyone has a different way to best absorb new facts and new skills. What's your learning style?

Cash box

Get to grips with your cash - take some tips from our pound-wise trio in you and your money.

Memory lane

Every street in every town holds hints of its past. Discover the clues to unlocking High Street History.

Put some spring into your mind

Keep your brain fit and active with a workout in the mindgym.

Detail from the Coastal Manager interactive

Control your own coast

Balance the demands of the people, the environment and the economy of a town by the sea: You are the coastal manager.

Pegs, liquids and shapes

Tests based on planning, combining and hidden shapes can be revealing - join in our survey.

The real you

Take our online survey and compare your sense of self with other users. Ask yourself Who Am I?

Relive, remeasure

Relive the once-in-a-lifetime day, and use our online calculator to try coming up with your own figures: Measure the AU.

Explore these islands

Get to grips with the backbone of the nation with our geology toolkit.

Surface discoveries

We can't quite run to the budget for a trip to Titan, so - to show how the equipment on Huygens tells us about the surface of the planet - join us on our mission to Brighton.

Detail of possible meteorite on Mars surface Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell

A trip to the neighbours

Discover the secrets of the red planet - without moving from your computer. Join us and explore Mars.

Cook up some science

Your kitchen is also home to a full science lab - find out how with kitchen chaos.

A message from the grandchildren

How might your actions today be shaping the coast of tomorrow? Find out - and get your own postcards from the future.

Interactive timeline

Take a journey through Leonardo's life and discover his investigations into art, science, anatomy, engineering and military weaponry in our timeline.

Stop flagging, get lagging

A makeover that isn't just cosmetic. Lose the paintbrush and lay down the loft lagging. Save loads in the energy house.

The universe on your desktop

Don't just stare blankly into space - use our guide to the constellations. Launch your virtual planisphere.

Easier choices

Uncover a new way of making decisions with systems practice.

The coming of the machines

Explore a nation as it moved from rural to urban life with our changing landscapes.

Be like a god

Create and observe your own world - make your own ecosphere.

Keep your desk safe

Protect your workstation from marauders with our desktop catapult.

A closer look

Get a close look at life. Turn your PC monitor into a digital microscope.

Life cycles

Follow the journey of a carbon atom and catch an element on the move.

All about you

Explore the impact of computers on everyday life with our interactive. After all, they're everywhere.

Are you eating your future?

Discover your diet's environmental cost: Are you eating the planet?

Your investigation

You've got the facts; you've learned the science. Now it's time to weigh the evidence.

Frank Spencer [Michael Crawford] tests the theory of centre of gravity

The middle

Whether you stand or fall owes a lot to your centre of gravity.

One of the piers left standing after the Tay Bridge collapsed

Start from the finish

The final resting position of an object is the first clue to calculating its trajectory.

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