Popping popcorn the old fashion way in a red iron pot. It’s not always easy to show home economics is a true science. This diverse field includes clothing and textiles, foods and nutrition, ...

Consider yourself forewarned. Do not try this experiment in the winter. Well, at least not in your kitchen. And, actually, never inside your home, regardless of the season. This is strictly an ...

Ready to do a fun and educational science project in your kitchen using only a bit of water and some cocoa powder? While Koch’s cocoa powder hack might look like magic or a camera trick, there’s ...

In my first few years of living away from home, I performed a lot of unintentional science experiments in my refrigerator (the variety of colors and textures of mold that can grow on forgotten foods ...

As I’ve mentioned before, the book Cooking for Geeks has a lot of ideas for anyone who’d like to try some “kitchen science” experiments with their kids. One experiment I plan to do is the Supertaster ...

Mike Adamick is a stay-at-home dad who writes for the Adventures in Learning science blog at PBS.org, the San Francisco Chronicle, KQED Radio, Disney's parenting website, Babble, and the Daddy Issues ...

When it’s raining, or snowing, or just a weekend with “nothing to do,” it pays for parents to have some tricks up their sleeves. Instead of planting the kids in front of the TV or giving up all your ...

Hannah Weiss from the Science Museum of Western Virginia stopped by to show Caitlin Francis some fun and easy kitchen science experiments to do with the kids if they’ve got a snow day! She showed us ...

If, as the weather turns rainy (and you can no longer let the little ones loose in the garden), you're finding weekends make you want to tear your hair out, fear not. Heading into the kitchen can ...

He is cooking up something special for his students every week. A high school science teacher in Washington, D.C., is cooking up something special for his students every week -- live from his home ...