Pour some milk in a dish (whole milk works best, but honestly, use whatever’s not expired), drop in some food coloring, then touch it with a dish soap-dipped cotton swab. The colors will scatter like ...

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 ...

Consider yourself forewarned. Do not try this experiment in the winter. Well, at least not in your kitchen. And, actually, never inside your home, regardless of the season. This is strictly an ...

Popping popcorn the old fashion way in a red iron pot. It’s not always easy to show home economics is a true science. This diverse field includes clothing and textiles, foods and nutrition, ...

When it’s raining, or snowing, or just a weekend with “nothing to do,” it pays for parents to have some tricks up their sleeves. Instead of planting the kids in front of the TV or giving up all your ...

Hannah Weiss from the Science Museum of Western Virginia stopped by to show Caitlin Francis some fun and easy kitchen science experiments to do with the kids if they’ve got a snow day! She showed us ...

Mike Adamick is a stay-at-home dad who writes for the Adventures in Learning science blog at PBS.org, the San Francisco Chronicle, KQED Radio, Disney's parenting website, Babble, and the Daddy Issues ...

In my first few years of living away from home, I performed a lot of unintentional science experiments in my refrigerator (the variety of colors and textures of mold that can grow on forgotten foods ...

More than 75 students from Laramie Montessori School spent a day exploring the cutting edge of Wyoming’s energy and natural resources research during a fully curated visit to the University of Wyoming ...

Several times while reading “The Food Lab,” the new cookbook from J. Kenji López-Alt, I wished I had the text in a keyword-searchable format—I wanted to put on my Internet goggles and surf.

Chef and food writer Kenji Lopez-Alt recently paid a visit to old stomping grounds: the Boston area, home to his alma mater, MIT. He helped prepare one dinner at Roxy's Grilled Cheese, a small, hip ...