MK ATLAS · Science Atlas

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All 24 boards to press before you read, in one place. The explanations are not on the boards. Guess, move things, and when you grow curious, go on to the articles.

New here? Start with these three

Physics The Buoyancy Board Why Does a Lump of Iron Float? Even an iron box floats once it is hollow. Astronomy & Space The Starlight Timetable When Did That Light Leave? The pole star's light left four centuries ago. Engineering The Binary Board Counting with Eight Switches Watch the carry happen; see your name in 0s and 1s.

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Physics The Rewind Board Can a Scattered Book Come Back Together? Rewind and they gather; nudge one and they never do. Physics Classical Mechanics Bench Push and See Push the handles: the same conditions always give the same result. Physics Quantum Mechanics Knowing the Present Leaves Only Odds Fired one at a time, a pattern appears — until you watch which slit. Physics The Buoyancy Board Why Does a Lump of Iron Float? Even an iron box floats once it is hollow. Physicswith video A Vessel for a Hundred Million Degrees Why Fusion Is So Hard Heat alone will not light it. Physics Measuring by the Same Stick Who Decides a Kilogram? What happens when two rulers disagree.

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Astronomy & Space The Starlight Timetable When Did That Light Leave? The pole star's light left four centuries ago. Astronomy & Space The Cosmic Calendar 13.8 Billion Years in One Year Earth arrives in September; we arrive on the final evening.

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Engineering The Pulley Board How the Geojunggi Lifted a Thousand-Geun Stone Twenty-five workers become one; the rope grows longer. Engineering The Tower Crane Board Why a Load Far Out Is Dangerous Two tonnes at the tip weigh like eight by the mast. Engineering The Binary Board Counting with Eight Switches Watch the carry happen; see your name in 0s and 1s. Engineering The Qubit Board A Switch Neither On Nor Off Tilt it, look, half-turn, bind.

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Chemistry From the Atom to the Periodic Table Change one proton and you know what an element is.

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Biology & Medicine The Body Microbe Map Where Your Tenants Live The gut is the capital, the skin a desert. Tap to meet the tenants. Biology & Medicine Natural Selection No One Changed, Yet Everything Moved Set either handle to zero and nothing happens at all. Biology & Medicine The Human Atlas Choose organs, muscles or bones and tap a part.

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Earth Science The History of the Earth Tap a period, see that age's continents. Earth Science The Forking Sky Why Forecasts Blur After Three Days A speck of difference becomes different weather in days.

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Mathematics The Map of Mathematics Where It Broke Pick where it broke; see what it was leaning on. Mathematics Why Write Letters Instead of Numbers Work the equals sign as a scale; watch one line of letters replace infinitely many checks. Mathematics Functions One In, Exactly One Out Hold the promise with a vending machine; drag one x and watch three faces move as one. Mathematics Negative Numbers Less Than Nothing Walk past zero; flip direction twice and come home. Mathematics Square Roots Finding a Length Back From an Area Watch the side of area 2 refuse to end; lay the diagonal down and find where √2 lives. Mathematics Probability Measuring What Hasn't Happened Toss the tenth flip; count all thirty-six squares of the denominator.

Look around by map

Lineage MapFollow where the discovery cards were born, joined up across a map of the world. Science Map of Korea (in Korean)Find out what the science museums and research institutes around Korea do. Map of the Science PrizesLight up, year by year, where the Nobel, Fields and Turing prizes came from. Science for ChildrenIn the order of Korean primary-school textbooks, years 3 to 6, with a board to handle in every unit.