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 ...

Step into the hidden science lab in your kitchen with five easy experiments that explain refraction, surface tension, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Somewhere between traditional kitchen wisdom and pure culinary chaos lies a magical realm where mushrooms become funnels and ...

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 ...