Simple science experiments suitable for home learning show hands-on activities that illustrate basic principles.

Simple home experiments that illustrate basic science make abstract concepts tangible.

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

Virginia Gewin is a freelance reporter in Portland, Oregon. Amid a backdrop of massive cuts in US federal support for scientific research, a new effort — the Science Foundation — launched last week to ...

Bruce J. MacFadden has received funding from the U. S. National Science Foundation. It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants ...