MANILA, Philippines - Kuya Kim the Magician? Or Kuya Kim the Mad Scientist?

How about a bit of both and a whole lot of Matanglawin? That's precisely what will happen on Sunday, August 29 as Matanglawin airs its Mad Science episode.

Host Kim Atienza, better known as Kuya Kim, will be joined by Plasmic Patrick and Kinetic Kerwin from Mad Science.

Kids will get to discover science in a different way: through mind-blowing experiments and tricks that seem like magic. These experiments, believe it or not, can be done right at home or in school. Who would have thought science could be this cool?

Two brothers in Canada named Ariel and Ron Shlien obviously did, and way back in 1990, they made a group called Mad Science. Their goal is to make science not only educational, but entertaining, too.

Flash forward to the present and around 29 countries have a Mad Science franchise.

From fireballs out of baking soda to a powder called sodium polyacrylate that turns water instantly into gel, Kuya Kim will explain how these “magic tricks” work. He will even pierce a balloon with a bamboo barbecue stick without popping it. The secret: petroleum jelly rubbed on the stick to lessen the friction against the rubber balloon.

Rubbing a balloon is similar to lightning. Both have static electricity, and this type of electricity made Kuya Kim’s hair stand on end when he touched the Van de Graaff machine.

The show will also feature a plasma sphere that looks like a lightning show inside a glass globe with different gases inside.

Household materials become Kuya Kim’s teaching partners as he explains how car engines work using only methanol and a lighted candle. He even builds a device to show Isaac Newton’s principles of gravity, force and the center of gravity with books, wooden sticks and two funnels attached with electrical tape. And when it comes to displaying the third law of motion, just watch a rocket balloon go and a seesaw candle rocking back and forth.

Kuya Kim also does the seemingly impossible: peel the shell off a raw egg without breaking it. How did he do it? He just soaked the egg in vinegar and let the acetic acid dissolve the calcium carbonate in the shell, leaving a rubbery egg membrane.

Psychedelic milk takes center stage when Kuya Kim breaks the surface tension of milk using liquid detergent. He also makes fountains out of vinegar-baking soda and menthol candy-soda combinations.

Matanglawin airs Sundays at 10 a.m. on ABS-CBN