Science in Schools is a program dedicated to teaching children the scientific method through fun hands-on experiments. The kids love science and I continue to love teaching them. Thank you again, ...

When it comes down to it, mayo is a fat, a protein, and an acid, which also happen to be the basic building blocks of an ...

With the Omnivore’s Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan transformed our understanding of food and drugs. Can he do the same for our sense of self?

It takes time for the desert to open itself to you and to acknowledge your presence; time to reveal what it keeps hidden, and ...

Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. If they’re big enough, they can prove ...

Researchers say tropical coral reefs may have already crossed a tipping point, portending mass dieback. Studies suggest they ...

A monastery garden in the mid-1800s became the birthplace of genetics. Gregor Mendel, a friar, studied pea plants. He ...

Sponsored by Irene Campbell MP and hosted by PETA, the reception was attended by several parliamentarians as well as Scottish actor and animal advocate Gail Porter, who urged support for ending ...

Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

Although some of us may not be familiar with the eureka moment, it is a sudden, unexpected flash of insight, inspiration or discovery when you realise a solution to a difficult problem or understand a ...

Nikola Tesla was a scientist and inventor whose work helped shape the modern world. Born in 1856 in what is now Croatia, ...