Researchers from the University of Greifswald and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (both in Germany) have developed a prototype experimental setup that simulates flow properties in ...

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 ...

The cool thing about science is that it describes what's happening all around us, all the time. Sometimes, though, kids find it hard to connect what they know about science to the real world. These ...

It's that time of year when your kids might be getting a little restless spending so much time inside. If your kids are starting to get the winter blues, we have some ideas to cheer them up. Why not ...

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 ...

Did you ever dream of having a lava lamp experiment when you were a kid? I know I did! There’s just something magical about those colorful blobs bouncing around in liquid light. Now, as a parent, you ...