If we had to list our top parent-approved pastimes, backyard science experiments for kids are a hot contender for the #1 spot because kids have fun learning while soaking up a little vitamin D in the ...

Artists have paintbrushes and canvas, carpenters have hammers and wood; for mathematicians, the tools of the trade have long been a blackboard and a slender cylinder of chalk (preferably Hagoromo, the ...

JAZMIN: OUR FRIENDS AT THE ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER CREATED AN EXPERIEMENT USING FOOD COLORING AND BAKING SUPPLIES. IT WILL TEACH YOU ABOUT SOMETHING YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT. YOUR KIDS MIGHT LIKE THIS.

A type of blackboard chalk that was produced for decades by just one factory in Japan was so highly prized by mathematicians they referred to it as "the Rolls-Royce of chalk." And when rumors surfaced ...