College professors these days face an ever-higher bar to grab the attention of their students, forced to compete with the stimuli of smartphones and laptops in large lecture halls. But when your ...

Let’s face it, people still think science is inaccessible. According to a recent Pew study, half of American adults think that students don’t go into STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — ...

HOUSTON – Known for their mommy and me science experiments on their YouTube channel, ‘Mommy and Me: The Listers,’ Crystal Lister and her four-year-old daughter are back with easy Halloween-themed ...

Emily Graslie is the Field Museum’s first-ever chief curiosity correspondent. Credit: Jeffrey Marini In the fall of 2010 one of Emily Graslie’s classmates suggested that she visit the zoological ...

No one ever won a Nobel Prize for using lemons to power a light bulb or setting their hand on fire. Maybe someone should have, because experiments like those have introduced generations of kids to the ...

Next week’s total solar eclipse isn’t just a chance to see a cool natural phenomenon, it’s a rare opportunity for all kinds of science experiments. The path of a total solar eclipse hasn’t touched the ...