When summer starts to drag, you need a few tricks in your kit for entertaining the kids, preferably outside the house. These easy water activities are designed to take just minutes to set up but will ...

Did you know about 71 percent of the Earth's surface is covered with water? And up to 60% of the human adult body is water? Water is essential for all life on the Earth, and it is one of the most ...

Using a few materials from around the house, you can prove water and oil do not mix. Materials STEP 1: Fill the plastic bottle three quarters of the way with vegetable oil. STEP 2: Fill the plastic ...

This fun science activity introduces basic concepts of physics and gravity. With just a few ingredients, your child will be able to see water “walk” up paper towels then down into an empty jar. Tell ...

Here is a "5-minute crafts" video clip of yellow and blue water, which appears to demonstrate that when you place one color on top, you get three layers of colors, whereas the other results in just ...

In the 16th century, Leonardo da Vinci first described a fascinating phenomenon involving water that later became known as the hydraulic jump. And a mere five centuries later, scientists have finally ...

While theories and counter-theories flew, two Irish scientists, one of them a renowned physicist named John Joly and the other a young botanist named Henry Dixon, decided to test the strength of a ...