Visitors can contribute to citizen science and help town horticulturalist care for lotus plants that help keep water clean ...

The Signal Path] shows us how to recreate a classic science experiment to measure the weight of an electron. Things are easier for us, because unlike [J. J. Thomson] in 1897, we have ready ...

Jennifer Smith, a sixth and seventh grade science teacher at Mahomet-Seymour Jr. High School, is one of 12 teachers ...

The trend has little direct research, but studies on light, heat and relaxation show why it might help some people.

From the first successful kidney transplant in 1954, modern organ transplantation has often been linked to the horrors of Frankenstein. While people have grown to accept kidney and liver transplants ...

We've been trained to 'see something, say something' about danger. What if we did the same for what's good? It takes 10 ...

Kitchen Pantry Scientist Liz Heinecke shares some science projects. I found rare sales on everything from cookware to small ...

A bonobo named Kanzi surprised scientists by successfully playing along in pretend tea party experiments, tracking imaginary juice and grapes as if they were real. He consistently pointed to the ...

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning ...

Children love to play pretend, holding imaginary tea parties, educating classrooms of teddies or running their own grocery stores. Now, a new study suggests that such make-believe play is not a ...

Raphael Gomes conducts more science experiments using food, pushing edible items to unexpected limits.

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...