It is official – bookings are not being taken for the Science Fair 101 Program! We are her to help support educators and students develop award winning science fair projects. It is up to you as an ...

Marlen Müller, what exactly is technology transfer? Applied to Empa, technology transfer means bringing research results from our laboratories to industry. At Empa, this happens primarily through ...

I always like to challenge people! This is a fun activity as many of my younger scientists think they can do it. Be warned – make sure no one passes out from trying too hard! Let’s get started.

The Salinas Community Science Workshop brings its converted bus filled with tools and ideas to Cesar Chavez Library every ...

Halloween is a great time to try some spooky science tricks and experiments. Here at Science Sparks, we’ve been growing our collection of Halloween Science Experiments for years, and this year’s new ...

(But “good luck finding one,” he acknowledged.) But the intense interest in psychedelics makes it only more important that the science behind them is as rigorous as possible, untainted by the ...

NASA announced two awards Thursday to establish scientific consortia – multi-institutional coalitions to conduct ground-based studies that help address the agency’s goals of maintaining a sustained ...

China hopes a giant laboratory 2,300 feet underground is key to beating the US at discovering the secrets of the universe’s most mysterious particles–neutrinos. Slated for completion next year ...

Can you completely submerge a paper towel under water without it getting wet? The answer is yes, you can! It needs some science trickery, but you’ll be surprised how easy it is! When the glass is ...

Non-fiction publishing is failing its readers. It is pumping out books with supposedly game-changing ideas, without bothering to ensure basic accuracy. These tomes have the appearance of academic ...

But what does that mean? Francis Bacon, the science philosopher, said that science relies on thematic organization and a logical narrative flow, referring to experimentation without direction as “mere ...