Welcome back to another edition of Science Sunday. We are talking suction cups on this segment today. Most everyone has probably had some experience with suction cups, so we thought we would explain a little bit of how they work. There is no glue or adhesive that helps it to stick to surfaces, so how do they stick so well? It is all pretty simple and comes down to air pressure. Watch the full segment below to learn just how they work, and how much weight they can hold.
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Aoife Ryle is a STEM Educator at the Connecticut Science Center. In addition to working with school groups, she works with our Teen Program, Overnights department, and shoots weekly science segments for WFSB. She has a degree in Bioengineering from the University of Maine and has a personal interest in the life sciences and engineering which makes bioengineering a perfect crossover.
Mark Dixon is a meteorologist on WFSB Channel 3 Eyewitness News and a host of the weekly Science Sunday segments with the Connecticut Science Center. He has been nominated for several Emmy awards for weather anchoring and has won awards from the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcaster’s Association and the American Meteorological Society.
