Former elementary school teacher Matt Shurtleff — known to many students as “Matt the Mad Scientist” — demonstrated how sound waves move using water and lasers.

The story of the Easy-Bake Oven begins with pretzels. In the early 1960s, Norman Shapiro was walking through New York City when he spotted vendors keeping pretzels warm with small ovens. Shapiro was ...

Packing lunches for kids can often resemble a daily puzzle, where the stakes may seem small, but the opinions expressed can be quite loud and varied. The main objectives are to provide practical food ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...

Notre Dame professor Katie Bibedorf, better known as Kate the Chemist, joins TODAY to share entertaining science experiments you can do at home with the kids including a snowstorm in a jar and a snow ...

Oh, and a dude named Mark had to fit into the costume. By Tony Maglio Ross and Matt Duffer, better known in Hollywood as the Duffer Brothers, joined Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday’s Tonight Show to promote ...

Winter means a lot of indoor time, and I've learned that science experiments are a lifesaver on those long, cold days. The best part? You don't need anything fancy. Baking soda, vinegar, food ...

Every generation thinks the "kids these days" are hopeless little weaklings, but today's kids really do seem to be built different. Growing up in a world where the internet has never not existed seems ...

Becoming a mom and realizing I was responsible for raising a healthful eater sent me back to school to get a nutrition degree. Obviously this is a bit extreme, and to be clear I was planning on going ...

OVER. METRO COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE REACHING FOR THE STARS. LITERALLY. YEAH. MCACY IS PART OF A NATIONAL PROGRAM THAT GIVES STUDENTS THE CHANCE TO SEND THEIR OWN RESEARCH TO THE INTERNATIONAL ...