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!
Thousands of Spiders Spinning Together. If you are even remotely scared of spiders be sure to side step Dallas. Thousands of spiders have come together to create an enormous communal spider web. By enormous, we mean nearly 300 feet long and 40 feet high. What is most odd about this finding …
Lasers Everywhere. Lasers have become common in everyday life. From use in DVD machines to college lectures across the country lasers are everywhere. You can even make a laser projection microscope to look at cells swimming in water. Lasers are different from colored light because it has a well defined …
The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was the worst the world has seen. With over 12,000 lab confirmed cases and a 50% mortality rate while travelling world wide gave a new push for an Ebola vaccine got a new push. What is the Ebola Virus? Ebola is a hemorrhagic …
Divers discover a floating ball of… Recently a team of divers off the coast of Turkey came upon an unusual sight. A giant floating blob. So transparent that it looks like a ball of glass in the water. With a diameter of almost 13 feet, this was certainly a giant …
Chomping through Prey. Tyrannosaurs belong to a group of meat eating dinosaurs called theropods. Theropods ate pretty much anything with meat. Insectivores, herbivores and even other carnivores. All that meat means lots of bone. How did they chomp through bone? Teeth! They are very much in style! Tyrannosaur teeth …
This newly found fossil is causing quite a stir. Can you figure out why? Here’s a hint: It looks like a snake, and it is. Kind of. It is the evolutionary cousin to the snake, a mix between a snake and a lizard. A new fossil that is teaching …