Fun Science for Kids
From atoms, to molecules and compounds, chemistry studies how matter interacts. Chemistry is the bridge between many sciences. It applies physics to biology, and biology to physics. Chemistry aims to find the perfect drug. It hopes to better photosynthesis in energy storage. Maybe one day it will even unravel the puzzles of life’s origins.
Enjoy your stroll through our Science Happening NOW! chemistry section! Don’t forget to head on over to our kids science projects section to get easy chemistry experiments to do at home or in the classroom!
PSA – We’re moving chat over to Zoom this week, it will be open at 1130 from the beginning of each class. We will switch video and audio over to it when the lesson ends. Hello Science Extraordinaires! Have you always felt like there was a little something special about …
Discover how a team of MIT researchers have taken cues from “Honey I shrunk the Kids” and made it real. Shrinking to Nano 3D printing in the nanoscale has been a challenge for researchers around the world. While we have a desire to fabricate parts smaller and smaller, our abilities …
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 …
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 …
Carbon dioxide is a pesky gas that is building up in our atmosphere from burning too many fossil fuels. About 10-25% of the greenhouse effect is due to carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect. Life on Earth relies on a delicate balance of heat from …
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 …
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 …
Controlling the brain. The world where the Force can control your thoughts with a hand wave is coming soon to theaters near you. In the real world scientists are playing catch up and controlling the brain with light. Two leaders in the field just won the Breakthrough Prize. Karl Deisseroth …