This series of videos about inspirational scientists and engineers looks at their passions both inside and outside the laboratory.

A browsable collection of environment-related questions posed by elementary- and middle-school students to the scientists of the American Museum of Natural History in honor of Earth Day. Great questions and great answers.

Are you looking for business and economic news? The Dismal Scientist provides all the latest current events regarding economics and business environments.

Learn what science is and what scientists do. Scientists are named for what they study; discover some of the more common branches of science.

Article reports on the science behind being "hangry" - a term that refers to the grumpiness that often accompanies hunger. Includes video.

This book was created by fifth and sixth grade students at in Amherst, Massachusetts. As part of study of the local watershed, students interviewed and worked with local scientists who were involved with studying and promoting the health...

Find out about the theories as to how Oetzi the Iceman died over 5,300 years ago. Oetzi's remains were found in 1991 by hikers in the Italian Alps.

Report from December 2000 about scientific findings to that point about the body of Oetzi, a 5,300-year-old corpse discovered in 1991 in the Italian Alps.

A food web is a way of seeing how energy is transferred from organism to organism. All living things need energy. They use it to move, to grow, to reproduce. That energy has to come from someplace. Drawing a food web is a great way to...

First one to empty the jug wins! And it's not as easy as it sounds...

Detectable flashes of light are released as wintergreen-flavored candies are crushed in darkness.

Sharp Pencils and water-filled sandwich bags demonstrate the nature of certain polymers.

Salt crystals demonstrate how forces can be directed in mechanical systems.

Glass objects seem to disappear when placed in cooking oil.

Do you have the magic touch? Watch as your finger mysteriously moves a pencil without touching it.

In this book, Sylvia Acevedo tells how she became a rocket scientist. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.