A young visitor interacts with a mechanical experiment inside a science museum, demonstrating basic physics concepts such as ...

In this quick science demo, I use green food coloring, a glass, and a paper towel to show that even invisible air takes up ...

We tend not to dwell on the fact that we exist in three dimensions. Forwards-back, left-right, up-down; these are the axes on which we navigate the world. When we try to imagine something else, it ...

In mere minutes, smearing mice with a common food dye can make their skin almost as transparent as glass. For a study in Science, researchers spread a solution of tartrazine, a common coloring for ...

Explore the simple machines behind Buffalo’s grain elevators and the physics that power them. Buffalo’s grain elevators changed the world! In this episode of Compact Science we uncover how a local ...

One of the best parts of being a parent has to be watching children discover the world around them. After all, kids are endlessly curious, and part of the fun is seeing the wonder on their faces as ...

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One morning in 2009, Jacqueline Tabler woke up with the solution to a laboratory problem that had been plaguing her for months. She got out of bed, grabbed her notebook, and started sketching out an ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...