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Neoteny: Why Disney Princesses Look Like Babies

Neoteny, Evolution, and Disney Our friend Dr. Joe Hanson from It’s Okay to Be Smart (PBS Digital Studios) goes full…

Bubble Gum Science Have you ever had gum stuck in your hair? Swallowed your gum? Found a wad of chewed…

To do the science experiment with Sophie, you’ll need: Borax (find it in the laundry aisle of a grocery store)…

Do you want to know how potholes form in the road? Episode One kicks us off with potholes! Watch the video and do the experiment!

Accessibility is critical to extend the advantages of technology to as a large number of people as possible. Microsoft estimates…

Ancient squid had shells, but now they don’t. How did that happen and why? Find out in this video about squid shells, from PBS Eons.

Did you know we can trace the evolution of our hands, and thumbs, back to a 375 million-year-old fish called…

Where did the Uto-Aztecan language originate? An interdisciplinary research project looked at a set of 100 words to understand the sound…

Dinosaurs’ fossils have attracted paleontologists to the Badlands of Ghost Ranch, NM, since 1881. Here, they have found the best…

By Jeff Goldberg @jeffagoldberg For a while, I was conflicted about the effort to see the solar eclipse either in…