Everyday Science

So what would you do if I said, “Look! I got you some gold!” and handed you a chunk of this? Well, you would look at those lovely well-developed crystal faces, for one.

Have you ever been told not to play with your food? Perhaps been told that it isn’t polite or disrespects the other people at the table?

The great divide between our beliefs, our ideals, and reality

How do you transport two young orangutans to a zoo thousands of kilometers away from their native lands? Here's the simple answer: FedEx. Here's the less simple answer: It's a lot of work.

Everyone knows that broccoli is good for you. What was not known—until researchers examined how broccoli was prepared for distribution—is that frozen broccoli lacked the cancer-fighting nutrients that the fresh vegetable provided.

Visual notes from the Science of Learning panel at South by Southwest EDU (SXSWedu)

The world’s undersea network of transoceanic cables serves as the cardiovascular system for data coursing through the Internet and other communications, but not without a lot of human help

A tasty test from Science Buddies 

The internet is filled with claims about how we form initial assessments of other people within the first ten minutes - or even the first ten seconds - of meeting them.

The moon, sun and some shenanigans between them brought a 14-meter tide to the coast of France
 

What I love about the annual TED gathering in Vancouver is the way science coexists along with art, social justice, popular song and the rest of TED's eclectic mix.

The next March equinox eclipse won't occur for another 19 years