On a breezy spring afternoon at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, designer Jake Barton is watching a pair of middle schoolers chuck an iPod across a playground while another kid films the scene ...

BUENA PARK – Anna Do, a Fountain Valley High School senior, peered down the side of a protractor and examined the 11-story roller coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm Thursday. If she measured the angles ...

Physics can be daunting for many students, but educators on the Physics Bus are trying to change that. Educators on the big silver bus showcase novel exhibits built out of everyday items, ...

Chances are the shelter-in-place orders taking effect nationwide have interrupted your kids’ schooling, and as a result, keeping them cooped up has made them destroy everything you once called “home,” ...

If you're anything like us, you probably spent many an hour in your younger days bouncing up and down on a seesaw (or teeter-totter or teeter board, depending on where you grew up. And, even now, you ...

UNION CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- Talking about Newton's Second Law of Motion may not be too appealing to a bunch of sixth-graders. But if you do it in an unconventional science lesson, well that's a game ...

Clutching the handles and crossing her legs, Miren Stein positioned herself on the large gray apparatus and prepared for takeoff. Stein, 4, certainly wasn’t expecting to encounter a hovercraft during ...

At only 78 pages long, Carlo Rovelli's "Seven Brief Lessons on Physics" is certainly that. He speaks with NPR's Linda Wertheimer about modern physics. Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist ...