GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — This week we visited Plainfield Child Care in Grand Rapids with a variety of younger-aged kids, so we kept things fun, simple, and hopefully entertaining. This experiment uses a ...

Fall brings stronger weather systems to southern Colorado. Here's how to use boiling water and ice to explain atmospheric pressure and precipitation.

TAMPA, Fla. --Pressure means everything when it comes to forecasting weather and learning about global patterns. High pressure gives us sunny weather and low pressure gives us stormy weather. This ...

Scientific American is the authority on science and technology for a general audience, with coverage that explains how research changes our understanding of the world and shapes our lives. First ...

University of California, Berkeley, and Yale University scientists have recreated the tremendous pressures and high temperatures deep in the Earth to resolve a long-standing puzzle: why some seismic ...

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could do physics experiments on your phone, without needing a lab full of special instruments? Actually you can, with a free app called PhyPhox. It records data using the ...

New research shows that atmospheric pressure fluctuations that pull gases up from underground could be responsible for releasing subsurface methane into Mars' atmosphere; knowing when and where to ...