COLUMBIA, S.C. — We have two holidays to celebrate this week - Saint Patrick’s Day and the start of spring. Today’s experiment ties in both of those holidays. The experiment, sometimes called "walking ...

Place cups in a row (I used five cups). Fill the first, third and fifth cups most of the way full. Add food coloring to the water. To make a rainbow effect, add a few drops of blue color to the first ...

Water is usually treated as a background player in physics, chemistry, and climate science, but a growing body of research ...

A scientist at England’s University of Reading shared a video of a unique water experiment he conducted that shows how water is absorbed into different soils. Rob Thompson, who conducted the ...

Every day from December 1st to December 25th, The Royal Institution of Great Britain is opening a new box on its virtual advent calendar and sharing an original piece of content. One of the best so ...

Researchers have created metallic water for the first time. Through a very careful experimental setup, the team grew a thin layer of a gold-colored metallic water on the outside of a droplet of liquid ...

Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the nature of Danielle Albers' injuries. She suffered second- and third-degree burns. Danielle and Chad Albers just wanted to ...

When summer starts to drag, you need a few tricks in your kit for entertaining the kids, preferably outside the house. These easy water activities are designed to take just minutes to set up but will ...

WASHINGTON, March 28, 2011 — What may be the world's largest chemistry experiment in history launched last week as part of the International Year of Chemistry 2011. The American Chemical Society (ACS) ...

Taking the risk of swallowing ten grams (about third of an ounce or teaspoonful) of “heavy water,” Prof. Klaus Hansen, Oslo University pharmacologist, reported that he had apparently suffered no ill ...