Earlier this summer, I picked up the Little Labs Weather Beginner Experiment Kit. The idea behind the kit is appealing: a set of simple experiments to that kids can do to explore the science behind our weather. Unfortunately, the execution is uneven.
Happy Feet is finally on his way home and DARPA’s latest initiative is straight out of a horror movie.
We interrupt our regular transmission of Science News to wish a very happy 138th birthday to Lee De Forest, a prolific inventor who collected hundreds of patents before he was done.
In honor of Orville Wright’s 140th birthday, Caterpickles takes a quick look at today in aviation history.
The World’s Most Popular Penguin, math goes to war, a host of new NASA missions, and other news of the week.
Flying cars, solar-powered cars, mind control bikes, and other news of the week
My daughter’s latest balloon trauma happened just this weekend, when her brand new purple balloon popped on impact with a silver car parked in the hot…
The first time my 4-year-old saw her brand new balloon float away into the sky, she thought it was pretty awesome right up until the moment she realized it wasn’t coming back. When she had recovered enough to ask questions, she naturally wanted to know how high it would go before it popped.
One afternoon, while we were stuck in traffic, my daughter asked, “Why aren’t there flying cars?” Turns out there are. We just aren’t driving them yet.
Turns out there’s an awful lot of space stuff in the sky above Earth. Including some rather sizable asteroids.
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