Fun Science for Kids
Biology. The study of life. From single celled organisms harvesting light turning the San Francisco bay pink to the hugely multicellular organisms like you and me, biology studies how it all came to be.
Through hundreds of years of study we have learned that cells are the basic unit of life, while genes are the basic unit of hereditary and evolution is the engine that drives all life.
Even with discovering the human genome, proving evolution and discovering cellular processes some things remain unanswered. Two biological processes that no one can quite understand are seemingly simple. Sex and aging.
Enjoy your stroll through our Science Happening NOW! biology section! Don’t forget to head on over to our kids science experiments section to get easy biology project ideas to do at home or in the classroom!
Astronaut food poses a major problem for future space exploration. We can only send so much freeze-dried food aboard shuttle missions, and the International Space Station (ISS) is in constant need of being restocked with rations lest the astronauts aboard would starve. How can we go on future long-term missions to the Moon …
Read MoreFresh Astronaut Food: Growing food on the ISS, the Moon, and Mars
A sunshade to save the Great Barrier Reef.This week the University of Melbourne released a new method to potentially save the Great Barrier reef, and it is basically a giant sunshade.What is the sunshade made of?The proposed sunshade to protect the Great Barrier reef from incident sunlight is made of …
Blending in: A robotic fish becomes a reef resident.Researchers at MIT have recently developed and tested SoFi, the robotic fish that can blend in so well it can even swim alongside other fish.Why a robotic fish?You might wonder why researchers would want to create a robotic fish given all of …
Viruses have long been a frustrating enemy of humankind.Unlike bacterial infections that we learned to treat with medicines like penicillin, there is no corollary to antibiotics. The closest thing we have to “antiviruses” would be vaccinations. Historically we have treated viral infections and outbreaks like influenza and polio with a series …
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Lego Bricks make it to MIT.Lego bricks are a ton of fun to build with at home, and now they are making themselves a place in top-notch research labs as well. Legos in Labs? Can Legos be used to do cutting-edge research? It turns out they can in the world of …
The age old question a parent asks their kids: Are you listening? Ask any household with teens and you know it’s a major point of contention. Work with any toddler, and you will soon realize the importance of “1-2-3-eyes on me”. Why do we often have such a hard time …
Read MoreAre you listening? The science of in one ear, out the other.
Space is a harsh environment. To date, there is only one species on our planet that was found capable of surviving the vacuum of space – the water bear. In fact, in 2008 scientists put water bears in space for ten days with no protection. Once they returned home and …
While cancer is fairly easy to kill, keeping the person alive while we kill the cancer is exceedingly difficult. That is because cancer drugs are also toxic to healthy cells.The most difficult aspect of engineering cancer drugs is targeting cancer cells.That is to say, we are always looking for new …
The world has fallen head over heels with chocolate. To make 100 billion dollars of chocolate a year, the industry uses mainly one variety of plant, the Theobroma cacao tree. The only problem is, all of these plants are genetically similar. That means the same things will make them sick and …