Academics often lack the skills to engage with very young audiences, which can make STEM feel abstract. Charlotte Maughan Jones shares tips on using the right language and understanding what’s importa ...

A photon enters a cloud of atoms and emerges on the other side. When physicists calculate how long the atoms remained excited ...

Professor Toto from Absolute Science made two presentations July 6 at the New Castle-Henry County Public Library. Attendees ...

In the first part of this series, she weighs up the idea that the Earth could really be flat… In 1838, Samuel Rowbotham, an English inventor and flat-Earth proponent, conducted a bizarre experiment on ...

As a parent, a teacher, and a STEM coordinator, I have to say that low-prep, low-cost, high-engagement activities with tons of learning potential are my sweet spot. Kids love a good STEM challenge, ...

A small Ohio community is coming together to support Chloe Walker, a 15-year-old who suffered severe burns after a science experiment caught fire inside Greeneview High School last week. The incident, ...

A rainbow reveals with colors what otherwise remains hidden: light is "refracted" by transparent matter, in this case water droplets. This same physical effect underlies many everyday technologies, ...

Processes in the X-ray interferometer: The path of a single photon (pink) passes through two slits simultaneously and spreads out behind them into a characteristic “interference pattern”. This pattern ...

It was a mind-blowing day for hundreds of students and teachers in the western suburbs on Wednesday as they took a field trip to an immersive, two-day science fair at Morton College in Cicero. Kids ...

A 17-year-old whiz kid whose Irvine home was at the center of an FBI and hazmat squad probe last week said the search was all because of his science experiment. Federal authorities said they were ...