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An initiative of The Open University and The Wolfson Foundation
This online laboratory brings interactive practical science to students anywhere and anytime the internet is available. The laboratory features investigations based on on-screen instruments, remote access experiments and virtual scenarios using real data. Several activities are available to all, while others are available only to registered users.
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Popular experiments
Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) remote experiment
Subject Chem Bio Env HealthLive data from the BOD lab is not being streamed at the moment
Time required
Time required 30 mins or more
Virtual petrographic microscope
Subject Earth EnvThin rock sections viewed under a polarising microscope.
Time required 1-2 hours
All experiments (filtered; page 1 of 4)
Virtual petrographic microscope
Subject Earth EnvThin rock sections viewed under a polarising microscope.
Time required 1-2 hours
Fine Beam Tube
Subject Phys AstroAccess to real data from which users can determine a fundamental electron property.
Time required 2-5 hours
Histology & histopathology
Subject Bio HealthA collection of 320 annotated slides covering basic histology and histopathology.
Time required 1-15 hours
Time required 30 mins or more
Treezilla: map the trees in your street
Subject Env BioMap the trees in your neighbourhood and see their environmental benefits.
Time required 1-3 hours
Time required 2.5 hours
Variation in vegetation: the heather hypothesis
Subject Env Bio EarthSample virtual transects to gather data on species of heather.
Time required 2.5 hours
VM for Earth sciences
Subject Earth EnvExamine 3D specimens and microscope images of rocks, meteorites & moon rocks.
Time required 1 hour or more
Sedimentary Cyprus
Subject EarthVirtual hand specimens of rocks from the Pakhna and Lefkara formations.
Time required 1 hour