Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cool thing about science is that it describes what's happening all around us, all the time. Sometimes, though, kids find it ...

Beth Harris, long-time science educator who has shared lots of easy experiments here, offers a new one! This is all about light and liquids. Last year, Harris launched the fort kits, handmade bags ...

CLEVELAND — Maybe it’s the snow. Maybe it’s because it’s May. Maybe it’s the fact that I probably won’t see the ocean any time soon. But in any case, I was thinking about how much I love the smell of ...

Are you looking for engaging and educational activities to spark your child’s curiosity? A great solution is to set up easy science experiments that use everyday household items and bring science to ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Former elementary school teacher Matt Shurtleff — known to many students as “Matt the Mad Scientist” — demonstrated how sound waves move using water and lasers. Shurtleff, who ...

This photo shows the upper part of the water tornado model. The acrylic glas tank has a diameter of 50 centimetres and is illuminated with LED strips. The water forms a vortex whose surface shape ...

As the Easter school holidays get underway, here are five egg-citing chemistry experiments for families to try at home.

Kengo Yamada remembers asking a class of kindergartners where they thought wind came from. “One said, ‘Trees make wind,’” says the associate director of early childhood education at New Jersey’s ...