Take off with Museum of Life and Science's new exhibit
The Durham museum's new exhibit lets visitors reach heights of 20 feet with some super-stretchy bungee cords.
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Visitors can reach heights of 20 feet above the ground with the help of kinetic energy from some super-stretchy bungee cords. The attraction aims to simulate how living things use stored energy or wind energy to catch some air.
ID and seniors); $9.95 for ages 3-12;; free for under 3.
And to impress your kids, you can share these facts with them:
Some spiders make balloons by releasing thin strands of silk from their abdomen. The slightest breeze lifts the balloon and the spider floats a few feet or several hundred miles.
With their muscular back legs, grasshoppers can jump up to 20 times their body length. That¹s the same as a five-foot-tall person jumping from one end of a basketball court to the other!
One type of jewelweed has a petal-less flower pod that bursts open and flings seeds several feet away when touched.
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