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From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest science experiments on the planet.

Explore the fun of science in your own home with some amazing experiments from The Let's Go Club. You and your little one can recreate these simple colourful experiments using common household items.

“What this shows is that doing good science is hard, much harder than most people seem to think,” says Sam Schwarzkopf, a visual neuroscientist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

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