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The free virtual 3D science lab

A virtual 3D lab is a science experiment you can pick up and turn round. Mix chemicals and watch them react, switch on an electrolysis cell, throw a planet into orbit, fire a neuron or follow a blood cell through a beating heart. Every lab below is free, runs in your browser and comes with a guided tour and a quiz.

What makes it a lab, not a video

  • You do the experimentPour, heat, drag, throw and switch things on. Nothing plays by itself: what you see comes from what you did.
  • Real 3D, any angleTurn the beaker, walk round the heart, pull the lobes of the brain apart. Shapes that are hard to picture on a flat page make sense in 3D.
  • Real numbersReactions are balanced, orbits come from Newton’s law, the heart’s output is stroke volume × rate. Graphs draw themselves as you go.
  • A tour and a quiz in every labEach lab has a step-by-step guided tour, a classic experiment from history and a quiz that explains every wrong answer.
  • Free, no login, any deviceIt runs in the browser on phones, tablets, Chromebooks and laptops. No account, no install, no tracking of students.
  • Safe for any experimentBurn magnesium, make chlorine, overheat an enzyme or fling a planet into the Sun without a risk assessment.

Virtual chemistry lab

ابنِ الذرات، اسحب الإلكترونات منها، اجذب الجزيئات، اخلط المواد الكيميائية في مختبر افتراضي وادمج الأنوية مثل الشمس.

Virtual physics lab

Read a Vernier caliper and screw gauge, time a pendulum, make waves and sound, launch projectiles, wire circuits and bend light through lenses.

Virtual biology lab

افتح خلية ثلاثية الأبعاد، وراقب الأسموزية والإنزيمات والتمثيل الضوئي أثناء عملها، وراقب انقسام الخلايا عن طريق الانقسام المتساوي والانقسام الاختزالي، وتتبّع الدم عبر قلب ثلاثي الأبعاد ينبض.

Virtual maths lab

Unfold 3D shapes into nets, fill them with water to find their volume and slice them into cross-sections.

Using the virtual lab in class

  1. Before a practical: run it virtually first. Students predict, try the method and spot what could go wrong.
  2. Instead of a demo: project a lab and let the class call out what to change next (temperature, voltage, mass).
  3. For the dangerous or impossible: chlorine from brine, burning metals, nuclear fusion, the inside of a living brain.
  4. For homework and revision: the guided tour teaches, the quiz checks, and every wrong answer explains itself.

How it compares

FeatureScience AcademyTypical paid virtual labVideo demo
PriceFreePer student licenceFree
Login or installNoneAccount neededNone
You control the experimentYesYesNo
Turn it round in 3DYesSometimesNo
Phones and ChromebooksYesOften notYes

Frequently asked questions

What is a virtual 3D lab?

A virtual 3D lab is a science experiment you run on a screen instead of at a bench. You pick up the apparatus, change the conditions and watch the result in three dimensions, from any angle. Every lab here is free and runs in a web browser with nothing to install.

Is this virtual science lab free?

Yes. Every lab, guided tour and quiz on Science Academy is free, with no account, no login and no download. It runs on laptops, Chromebooks, tablets and phones.

Can a virtual lab replace real practicals?

Not completely: handling real equipment matters. A virtual lab is best before a practical (to plan and predict), after it (to explain the results) and for experiments too dangerous, slow, small or expensive for school, like electrolysis of brine, nuclear fusion or watching a single neuron fire.

Which subjects does the virtual lab cover?

Chemistry (9 labs: atoms, bonding, reactions, electrolysis, energetics), physics (12 labs: forces, momentum, waves, circuits, optics, gravity and orbits) and biology (11 labs: cells, DNA, enzymes, osmosis, the heart and the brain).

What age is it for?

It is written for secondary school, roughly ages 11 to 18 (KS3, GCSE, IGCSE, A level, and middle and high school science in the US). Each lab starts simple, and the guided tour, numbers and quiz go further for older students.

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