One summer day, 8-year-old Hugo Deans spotted a cluster of tiny, BB-sized spheres (galls) near an ant nest in his backyard.

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The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a funnel at the ...

Slime molds are yellow, oozing, amoeba-like organisms often found on decaying logs and in moist areas. They have no neurons ...

In this activity, pupils will learn about refraction and reflection, and how they’re different. You only need simple bits of ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile offers some of the clearest views of the universe, thanks to its dry climate, high altitude and ...

Tick season seems to be off to a fast start, with an unusually high number of bites already reported across the country. Some ...

The Curiosity rover conducted a first-of-its kind experiment on Mars, detecting organic molecules that have never been ...

Bayles decided the best way to help other college students overcome “chemistry anxiety” is to become a professor himself and ...

Gardening also has benefits beyond agricultural literacy. For very young children, gardening increases hand-eye coordination, which is linked to success in handwriting, math and reading. Gardening, ...

Researchers from the CUNY Graduate Center, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University found that people do not primarily learn by copying others or by calculating the most likely choice.

There is something undeniably primal about the act of looking up at the night sky. For generations, that simple, human ...