A teacher in Jiangxi, China, guided his students through building a two-stage rocket crafted from plastic bottles, powered ...

You are taught early in science that oxygen on Earth comes from sunlight. Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria use light to split water and release oxygen, shaping the atmosphere and making complex life ...

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

In this video, I show you how to create your own rainbow using just a glass of water, a flashlight, and a piece of white paper. It’s an easy and fun science activity you can try at home! By exploring ...

Although science often advances through tried-and-tested methods, sometimes scientists have to find creative ways to test ...

With its potent punch in every dose of oranges, kiwis, and that tiny bottle of vitamins on your grocer’s shelf, vitamin C ...

Part of the appeal of the Boyle myth may be that it promised a clean break: a waymark at which alchemy was cast aside and chemistry took over. But such changes rarely if ever happen in science, and ...

The Binghamton Local Section hosted an ACS Program-in-a-Box event and took part in the illustrated poem contest. The event ...

Despite the similarities, Langmuir emphasised that this pump was fundamentally different from Gaede’s; the cold walls of the ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, ...

Kids won’t need beakers and microscopes for these biology experiments—they just need themselves! Each of these five experiments lets children discover how a human body system works. And by doing these ...

Some planets might produce their own water instead of relying on outside sources. In laboratory experiments, researchers simulated extreme conditions found within certain exoplanets by blasting ...