Everyday Science

People in the Congo rainforests or in Montreal tended to react to the same piece of music in strikingly similar ways. Andrea Alfano reports

Do all objects with the same mass and shape accelerate at the same speed? Find out with Exploratorium

Unless you live in the North Atlantic or Arctic region, the Internet is the best place to watch this event 

Smoke wafting north from the Gulf of Mexico worsened the already stormy weather brewing across the southeastern U.S. on April 27, 2011. Julia Rosen reports

Severe weather forecasters could incorporate El Niño and La Niña cycling to make springtime tornado and hail forecasts. Christopher Intagliata reports

Research demonstrates cold fighting power of hugging

Reader-submitted photos of pi pies, pizzas and parties to commemorate the Pi Day of the Century

Trains aren't just carrying crude oil when it comes to energy

A carbonated chemistry challenge from Science Buddies

If you’re like me, you’ve always wanted Ernst Haeckel in your house. Well, not literally Ernst Haeckel, the great 19th century biologist (although that would be cool, in alive form).

Pi may be a universal constant, but only two countries can natively celebrate Pi Day: the U.S. and Belize. That's because they are the only ones (if Wikipedia is correct) to shorthand their date format so that it can match the first few digits of pi (3.1415), or March 14, 2015.

As much as we know about the white stuff that has blanketed much of the U.S. this winter, the sound that snow makes when trod underfoot remains something of a mystery