Interactive STEM Resources | 200+ Virtual Simulations

Biology

Absorption In the Small and Large Intestines: Journey from the stomach to the bloodstream

In this simulation, you will step into the Anatomy and Physiology lab to discover how essential your intestines are in maintaining human life. Investigate what happens if your intestines malfunction and learn why you really need to eat your veggies!

Chemistry

Acids and Bases (Principles): Avoid falling in a lake of acid!

In a futuristic lab, you will get help from a robot assistant to determine the acidity of a lake of acid found on an exoplanet. You will learn how to quantify the acidity and alkalinity of substances.

Chemistry

Acids and Bases: Acidity and Alkalinity in Everyday Substances

Join Marie in the Acids and Bases Simulation and explore the nature and concepts of these important chemical compounds. Measure the pH of chemical solutions, and use your acquired knowledge to evaluate mixtures of acids and base.

Biology

Action Potential Lab: Experiment with a squid neuron

Dissect a squid and use its giant neuron to witness the propagation of information in the shape of an action potential created by an electric current. Use this information to identify a neurotoxin affecting a hospitalized patient.

Chemistry

Advanced Acids and Bases

Join us in in the exploration of acids and bases and learn all the advanced terms used in chemistry.

Biology

Anatomy of the Respiratory System: Help rebuild a broken system

Learn about the anatomy and functions of the upper and lower respiratory tract while rebuilding the respiratory system on a broken model. Follow the journey of air all the way from the nasal cavity to the alveoli.

Biology

Animal Genetics

Learn about the Mendelian inheritance of double muscling in cattle. Find the responsible gene using linkage analysis and learn how mutation in this gene alters gene expression resulting in double muscled cattle.

Biology

Antibodies: Why are some blood types incompatible?

Learn about the concepts of antibodies and antigens, as well as the ABO and Rhesus blood grouping systems and their importance in blood transfusions. Then, you will help a young couple determine a potential risk for Rhesus disease in their unborn child.

Physics

Applications of Buoyancy: floatation

Join Dr. One at the lake and learn what it takes to make an object float or sink. Find out how the density of a liquid does significantly impact the buoyancy of an object and how much of a floating object is submerged below the surface.

Biology

Aseptic Technique: Culture your sample without contamination

Help a microbiologist prepare a pure culture that can be used to identify a microbe causing an infection! Use good aseptic technique to avoid contamination of the sample, ensure your own safety, and avoid surprise fires in the lab.

General Science

Atmospheric Circulation, Climate, and Biomes: Determine the lab’s location!

Discover the patterns of atmospheric circulation and the role it plays in influencing local climates and biomes around the world. Then use this knowledge to determine the biome and latitude of the lab!

Chemistry

Atomic Structure (Principles): Atoms and isotopes

Learn about the atomic structure of the elements and investigate the properties of element samples from an exoplanet to assess whether life on it is a possibility. Find out what differentiates ions and isotopes of an element.

Chemistry

Atomic Structure (Principles): Bohr and quantum models

Explore the atomic model, absorption and emission spectra, and how they reveal information about stars in galaxies far far away.

Chemistry

Atomic Structure: Assess the possibility of life on other planets

Chemistry

Azo Dye Test: Identify primary aromatic amines

Our lab recently relocated and some chemical labels were damaged during the move. Help us to reorganize our box of amines by performing the azo dye test. Use your results to determine if the unknown amine is a primary aromatic amine or not.

Biology

Bacterial Cell Structures: An introduction to the bacterial cell

Visit a research station in Antarctica and help the researcher Nicolas explore bacteria in melting water. Uncover the features that are necessary for bacterial survival and compare these to other bacteria living elsewhere.

Biology

Bacterial Growth Curves: Experiment with bacterial growth

Learn about the mind-boggling speed of exponential growth and test how different growth conditions affect bacterial growth.

Biology

Bacterial Isolation

Learn about the proper techniques of isolating single colonies from a culture sample, how to use aseptic techniques and how to perform plate streaking.

Biology

Bacterial Quantification by Culture

Use the serial dilution technique to quantify the effect of a novel antibiotic compound on bacterial growth.

Biology

Bacterial Shapes and Movement

Explore different bacterial shapes by using a microscope to look at a sample of bacteria from Antarctica.

Chemistry

Basic Chemistry Thermodynamics: Solve the challenge of storing renewable energy

Learn the core concepts of thermodynamics and apply the technique of bomb calorimetry to help solve the challenge of storing renewable energy.

Physics

Basic Electricity: Understand how electricity works

Help the scientists get electricity back in their lab by understanding how electricity works.

Biology

Behavioral Thermoregulation: Help keep a gecksi alive!

Life is hard when you need to constantly work to maintain your body temperature and keep your energy levels in check. Think like a gecksi, make wise choices and try to keep the gecksi alive in three challenging environments!

Biology

Benedict’s Test for Simple Carbohydrates

Have you ever wondered what a simple sugar is? Discover the structure of simple carbohydrates and how you can test for the presence of simple sugars in food samples.

Chemistry

Benedict’s Test: Which food samples contain reducing sugars?

Learn how to perform Benedict’s test for reducing sugars on a variety of food samples. Predict which samples contain reducing sugars and find out how your predictions compare to your results!

Biology

Biodiversity: Assess and compare biodiversity on an exoplanet

Travel to the exoplanet Astakos IV and use ecological methods to assess and compare biodiversity over time and between different sites.

Biology

Bioinformatics: An introduction

Embark on a mission to identify the metabolic pathway that produces an antimalarial compound in a rare plant. Can you begin the process of creating a novel antimalarial drug?

Biology

Biomes: Identify and create the main biomes on Earth

Learn about the main biomes on Earth and where they are located with our new Biome Generator. You will be able to adjust different parameters to build your own biome and observe the result of your changes instantly!

Biology

Biosafety

Introduction to containment level 3 (Biosafety level 3, BSL3) research laboratory, a hypothetical approach to identifying a potential bioterrorism agent that is classed as a hazard group three microorganism.

Biology

Biuret’s Test for Proteins

Have you ever wondered what protein is? Discover the structure of protein and how you can test for the presence of protein in food samples.

Biology

Blood Components: Dive into the microscopic world of blood cells!

Learn how to identify the key, physical characteristics of the blood components and understand their functions. Apply your knowledge to analyze patient’s blood samples and suggest possible diagnoses.

Biology

Body Planes and Sections: Locate a chimpanzee’s injuries

In this virtual lab you will help release an injured chimpanzee back into the wild by using your newfound knowledge of body planes and sections.

Biology

Body Structure and Organization: Help identify a potentially failing organ system

Learn about organ systems, their major functions, and the body cavities they're placed in, then use this knowledge to help respond to a medical emergency. Can you connect a patient’s symptoms to a potentially failing organ system?

Biology

Building Animal Cells

Help determine what a bear ate before it died by building the structure and choose the internal organelles of the four basic types of animal cells found inside the bear’s mouth.

Biology

Building Gram Positive and Gram Negative Cell Walls

Have you ever wondered what exactly makes bacteria divided into Gram groups? Do they have special barcodes or tiny identifiers at their surface? Let's find out together!

Biology

CRISPR-Cas applied to TGF-beta induced EMT

Learn how to detect the hallmarks of EMT using immunofluorescence and knock out the correct gene to revert the process using CRISPR

Chemistry

Calorimetry: Using a bomb calorimeter

Apply the technique of bomb calorimetry to help solve the challenge of storing renewable energy. Learn about the first law of thermodynamics, enthalpy, and internal energy.

Medicine

Cancer Pharmacology: Provide recommendations in a multi-million dollar project

Review the usefulness of a multi-million dollar operation to identify potential drugs for cancer chemotherapy, and provide your recommendations to the Project Leader.

Biology

Cancer Sample Preparation for Mass Spectrometry

Assist in a biopsy on a cancer patient and learn how to prepare the sample for mass spectrometry by extracting its phosphopeptides. Will you be able to identify the cancer stage of the patient by looking at the phosphorylation pattern?

Biology

Cancer: Impact of BRCA mutations

Investigate the principles of cancer development and cancer-related gene mutations to assess the risk of breast cancer development in a patient with a history of cancer in the family.

Biology

Carbohydrates: The sugars that feed us

The Carbohydrates Lab explores how carbohydrates are broken down by the digestive system and taken up into the bloodstream.

Chemistry

Carbon NMR: What is the mystery compound?

Help Yummy Food Inc survive the shut down of their food factory! Learn about the principles of the analytical technique carbon-13 NMR and interpret the spectrum of the mysterious unlabelled compound they have used in their food and drink.

Chemistry

Carbon Valence, Hybridization and Angles

Join Dr. One on a mission to figure out how the orbitals of carbon’s valence electrons hybridize, and how this greatly influences the bonds that carbon is able to form.

Biology

Cardio-respiratory Physiology: How can seals dive so deep for so long?

Monitor three dives of a Weddell seal in Antarctica and discover how long it can dive with the oxygen available in its stores.

Biology

Cardiovascular Function During Exercise: Learn how your body reacts to exercise

Use medical tests to gather information about patients and determine how their cardiovascular systems respond to different exercise intensities.

Biology

Cell Culture Basics: Plate, split and freeze human cells

Find out what it’s like to work in a cell culture laboratory. Learn how to use the aseptic technique to avoid contamination of your cells, and discover what it takes to keep them alive.

Biology

Cell Division (Principles): Mitosis and Meiosis

Join a cell biology research group to find out how a poisonous compound from a yew tree can be used in cancer therapy. You will be immersed in an animation of a human cell and use light and fluorescence microscopy to study cell division.

Biology

Cell Membrane and Transport: Learn how transporters keep cells healthy

Discover the structure and function of cell membranes by launching cargo molecules at a virtual cell. Apply your learning back in the lab to improve the health of synthetic cells that the lead researcher wants to use to produce insulin.

Biology

Cell Membrane and Transport: Modifying the cell membrane

Discover the structure and function of cell membranes using the fluid mosaic model. Apply your learning to improve the health of synthetic cells that the lead researcher wants to use to produce insulin.

Biology

Cell Membrane and Transport: Types of transporter proteins

Discover the structure and function of cell membranes by launching cargo molecules at a virtual cell.

Biology

Cell Structure: Cell theory and internal organelles

Explore different cell samples under the microscope to identify the differences between eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Build the structure of an animal cell and choose the internal organelles of four specialized cells.

Biology

Cellular Respiration (Principles): Measure energy consumption during exercise

Help local basketball players understand how the food they eat gets converted to energy through cellular respiration. Use a mouse model to find out what effect exercise intensity has on oxygen and glucose consumption.

Biology

Cellular Respiration: Glycolysis

Help the basketball players understand how the food they eat gets converted to energy by investigating glycolysis, the first stage of cellular respiration.

Biology

Cellular Respiration: Measuring energy consumption during exercise

Help basketball players understand how the food they eat gets converted to energy through glycolysis, the Krebs cycle and the electron transport chain. Use a mouse model to experiment on the effect of exercise intensity on oxygen and glucose consumption.

Biology

Cellular Respiration: Respirometry

Observe how we can monitor and better understand respiration by a method known as Respirometry. Learn the effects of exercise of respiration by observing glucose levels and oxygen consumption through a model organism: a mouse.

Biology

Cellular Respiration: The Electron Transport Chain

Take dive inside a mitochondrion to learn all about the electron transport chain (ETC) and pass on your findings to the basketball team so they can learn too!

Biology

Cellular Respiration: The Krebs Cycle

Help a basketball team learn about what happens in the second stage of cellular respiration, the Krebs cycle, to help them improve their longevity in the game!

Chemistry

Ceric Ammonium Nitrate Test: Which compound contains alcohol?

Join Dr. Ali to discover how to use the ceric ammonium nitrate test to detect alcohols. Deduce which of our two samples contains alcohol groups by performing the test yourself!

Biology

ChIP-exo

Perform the chromatin immunoprecipitation with exonuclease treatment (ChIP-exo) protocol, and prepare the target DNA to learn how E. coli survive in acid stress conditions.

Chemistry

Chemical Nomenclature: Learn the importance of inorganic compounds in life!

Become an alchemist for the day! Conjure up the names of inorganic compounds and learn their applications. Can you unlock all 16 transmute structures?

Chemistry

Chemistry Safety

Go on a mission to produce sustainable biodiesel and learn how to safely work with dangerous chemicals without any risk of getting hurt.

Chemistry

Chemistry Safety: Dispose of chemical waste

Join the lab assistant Marie in clearing up the fume hood after some students left a mess in the lab. Learn how to use your knowledge of the chemicals required for an experiment and apply it to safely dispose of the chemical waste.

Chemistry

Chemistry Safety: Hazard symbols

Join lab assistant Marie to find out how to decide on the correct laboratory practice and personal protective equipment when dealing with hazardous chemicals. Learn the meaning of the hazard symbols and apply your knowledge with some example chemicals.

Physics

Collisions: Elastic and inelastic forces

Join Dr. One and Isaac Newton at the pool table to learn about momentum conservation and elastic and inelastic collisions.

Biology

Comparing Bacterial Structures

Explore the similarities and differences between bacterial and eukaryotic cell structures. Discover what structural features allow bacteria to survive in extreme environmental conditions.

Biology

Competition: Learn to identify and quantify competition between species

Help the residents in Astakos IV to increase the yield of their crops by reducing the competition between different species.

Engineering

Concrete Materials Testing: Learn the key properties of durable concrete

Enter a virtual engineering lab to test concrete materials and work with an engineer. In the lab you will find samples of fine and coarse aggregates, cement, water & admixtures. Test many combinations and find the recipe for a durable concrete.

Chemistry

Conductivity Testing: Investigating conductivity and its practical applications

Embark on this electrifying adventure of conductivity testing. Grasp the difference between electrolytes and nonelectrolytes, the connection between concentration and conductivity, and appreciate the significance of ions in biological systems.

Biology

Confocal Microscopy

Join this virtual confocal microscopy lab and learn how to take pin-sharp confocal micrographs and 3D renderings. Use the knowledge to save your uncle’s crop from a mysterious plant disease.

Physics

Conservation of Energy: maximize the mechanical energy of a rollercoaster

Apply the concept of conservation of energy to make the Labster roller coaster ride faster and more exciting. Calculate potential, kinetic and mechanical energy using the formula board to determine how to best improve the roller coaster track.

General Science

Continental Drift Theory: Past and future locations of the world's continents

Solve the continental mystery discovered by Alfred Wegener. Piece together the jigsaw puzzle of continental drift by investigating different forms of evidence, and unravel the story they tell about how the continents have moved over millions of years.

Biology

Control of Microbial Growth: Explore decontamination and selective toxicity

A dental patient’s recurrent infection is becoming dangerously septic. Your task is to investigate the cause using diffusion disc assays and prevent further cases by exploring sterilization, decontamination & selectively toxic infection control methods.

Physics

Coulomb's law: Electrifying Electrostatics

Experiment with tensions and charges to uncover the secrets of Coulomb's law, the cornerstone of electrostatics.

General Science

Counting Cells: Control the epidemic

Work as a pharmaceutical detective to identify the link between a new drug and a recent epidemic. Use the scientific method to define the different variables and perform a fluorescent cell assay to test the effect of the drug on the cells.

Biology

Cytogenetics: Perform a prenatal diagnosis

Help a mother-to-be who is extremely worried about the fate of her baby. Will you able to diagnose the condition of the fetus using a cytogenetics-based approach?

Biology

DNA: Structure and function

Research the fundamentals of DNA in humans — where it is, how it’s structured, and what it does — to explain them to a confused reader of your science magazine.

Biology

Diabetes

Learn the basics of Type II diabetes.

General Science

Drivers of Plate Tectonics: Replicate Earth’s convection currents

Tectonic plates travel two to three centimeters each year, but why? And how? Create convection currents in different materials to understand what causes plate movement and why it is so slow.

Biology

ELISA

Help a scientist detect and quantify proteins by using one of the most popular techniques in molecular biology.

General Science

Earth's Atmosphere

Join Dr. One in a spaceship and delve into the Earth’s history. Learn about the major events which caused dramatic changes to the composition of the atmosphere, and explore the theories and evidence which surrounds them.

Biology

Ecological niches: Choose the right Kuppelfang to bring to Earth!

Investigate why the Kuppelfangs died when transplanted to the new Astakos IV biodome on Earth. Quantify their realized and fundamental niche, and explore how acclimation affects the boundaries of a niche.

Biology

Ecosystem Dynamics: Assess the effect of fertilizers on the phosphorus cycle

Analyze the effects of fertilizers on the phosphorus cycle and help the residents in Astakos IV to increase their crop yield without compromising the environment.

Physics

Electrical Resistance: Apply Ohm's law to simple circuits

Build your own resistor to repair a broken radio.

Chemistry

Electrolysis

Experiment with electrolytic cells in a lab on Mars! Assemble different electrolytic cells so you can make hydrogen fuel for your Mars rover, and give mini Dr. One a new gold coating.

Physics

Electromagnetic Spectrum (Principles): Uses and dangers of electromagnetic waves

Discover what types of radiation make up the electromagnetic spectrum and the uses and dangers of each type.

Biology

Electron Transport Chain: A rollercoaster ride that produces energy

Help a group of engineers figure out if a mysterious dark alga is able to do photosynthesis using green light and measure this process with the Hill reaction. If it is, your work will help create a sustainable plan that will use sunlight and pollution sources for biofuel production.

Chemistry

Electrophilic Addition: Explore reactions of hydrocarbons

Travel to Titan on a reactivity reconnaissance mission and explore this hydrocarbon world. Can you use your knowledge of the electrophilic addition reaction to identify hydrocarbons that you could use to build an extra-terrestrial colony on Titan?

Chemistry

Elimination Reaction: Use cyclohexanol to create polymers

Join Kim in the Polymer Research Lab to solve the puzzle of unexpected side product formation in their optimized cyclohexanol elimination reaction. Use and expand your organic chemistry knowledge to do this and get the polymer production back on track.

Medicine

Embryology: Discover the genetics of limb development

Dissect chicken and mouse embryos to visualize and analyze embryonic development. Compare genetic results from the model organisms with the genetic laboratory results from a human case study to determine the cause and effect of Liebenberg Syndrome.

Medicine

Endocrinology: Learn how contraceptives work

Develop a method for keeping a population of rabbits under control by using hormonal treatments. Investigate how different concentrations of different hormones impact the fertility of male and female rabbits.

Chemistry

Energy Surfaces and Spontaneous Reactions

Learn the core concepts of thermodynamics and discover how chemical reactions can be represented with energy surfaces. Determine which chemical reactions are spontaneous.

Chemistry

Environmental Impact of Coal Power Plants

Join the project manager Marie in her quest to uncover the environmental impacts of coal power plants and fish farming. Explore the issues with our current source of fuel and help Marie come up with a greener solution to save the environment.

Biology

Enzyme Kinetics

Investigate Alcohol Flush Syndrome by studying Alcohol Dehydrogenase kinetics. Learn how to use a spectrophotometer, perform an enzyme kinetics experiment, analyze data and understand different inhibition mechanisms.

Chemistry

Equilibrium

Learn about equlibrium and help a famous scientist to prevent a global famine by applying your knowledge to increase the yields of fertilizer for the crops.

Biology

Eutrophication

Utilize microscopy and spectroscopy techniques to solve a massive fish kill mystery. Investigate how dissolved nitrogen levels and an algal bloom are linked to the fish population.

Biology

Evolution: Are you related to a sea monster?

Learn the basic mechanisms of evolution in order to simulate how a population evolved over hundreds of years, and learn how random mutations are the basis of natural selection.

Biology

Evolution: Founding theories and principles

Follow the million-year evolutionary journey of a canid colony as you create random mutations in their DNA and critique biological evidence to build a taxonomic tree that unites all life on Earth.

Biology

Evolution: Generations of an allele

Dive into the evolution of whales! Follow the path of a gene from a rare mutation to being stuck in a population through natural disasters and competition.