Astronomy

If you are a great lover of science, in the Google Play application store you can find a wide variety of tools with which to satisfy your curiosity. Applications to see the stars, didactic talks that will change your perspective on things, to describe your body from the inside... A great source of information to download to your mobile in the form of free applications with which to spend hours and hours broadening your horizons. These science apps will educate you as well as entertain you. Do not miss it!

TED

The official application of TED talks compiles more than 3,000 conferences on the broadest and diverse topics. Of science, of course, we have a great assortment, within which we can find them sub titled in Spanish. For example, we can discover how to use light to see inside our bodies or what the pharmaceutical company of the future could be like, with pills made at home thanks to 3D printers. The application has a specific section for talks sub titled in Spanish, as well as 'Most recent', 'Trends' and 'Most viewed' tabs.

At the bottom we have four sections among which 'Discover' stands out. It is a search engine by categories where we can find all the talks on science that are available in the application.In addition, we can watch the talks on the mobile or send them to the television if we have Chromecast or Smart TV. An application that we can download in the Google Play store, which does not contain and whose installation file weighs 17 MB.

Sky Map

Now we are going to look at the night sky and its stars, although with the pollution that invades us, doing it in the city can be somewhat frustrating. If we are in the countryside and the night is clear, it may be the ideal time to use 'Sky Map', a, literal, 'sky map', to through which we can locate the stars we see. To do this, we only have to place the mobile pointing at the sky and, thanks to the gyroscope, we will be able to move and see which stars are above our heads. For the application to work we have to give them location permission since they must know where we are.

On the map we can clamp our fingers if we want it to cover more or less sky space. If we give a small touch on the map, a side menu will open in which we can choose the elements visible on the map, as well as being able to activate manual mode to move the map by scrolling with our finger. Sky Map is a free app with no ads or purchases and is around 3MB in size, although it may vary depending on the device you have.

Bone system in 3D

An application indicated for first-time Medicine students and all those curious who wish to investigate a little more what we have inside our body, in relation to the bones. Its name is '3D bone system' and it is free although it has ads inside. The installation file of this application is 30 MB in size.

It basically consists of two parts, a lateral bar with head, trunk and extremities and a central screen where we can see the different parts of the body in large size. To see each bone, we will select it, it will turn colored and a screen with the description of the bone will appear at the top. To see the full text we have to press the arrow. In the three-point menu we can see the list of all the bones included in the application, select and deselect them, as well as choose that all the bones have a color in order to differentiate them from each other just by taking a look. The bones also have a 3D view and we can change the view by scrolling with our finger.

Science News

Any lover of science knows that, if she wants to be up-to-date with everything that happens, she must update herself at all times.For this, it is practically essential to have an application with scientific news. An application in this regard that we have found is 'Science News' that collects different scientific media to offer you the latest news. It is a free application although it contains ads inside. Its installation file may vary depending on the device but can be around 9 MB.

As soon as you open the application we will have the latest news of the day, the most read of the week or live news. We have a search engine for selected news and a menu to archive the news that we want to read later. If we want to read a piece of news, we just have to click on it. English news can be translated with Google Translator. In addition, we can share them on social networks and decide if we want to be notified of new news through text notifications or sound alerts.

Home experiments

And finally we are going to focus on a science application to share with our sons and daughters. With 'Home Experiments' we can begin to inoculate them, from an early age, with the bug of science with simple experiments that we can do at home. There are multiple tricks, each of them included in a different section. Each trick is taught via an embedded YouTube video. We can learn how to make slime, magnetic water, a homemade mini-water pump... In addition, you have the option for the application to hide the videos that you have already seen.

The 'Home Experiments' app is available for free on the Android Play Store. It contains ads but not paid within it and its installation file has a weight of 6 MB.