Kids News - Science Articles

November 6th was a typical chilly, fall morning in Springville, New York. The cold blustery winds whipped our faces, but we did not care - For we, were about to witness the test of an exciting experiment - the launch of a stratosphere balloon!...

Like most teenagers, 12-year old Daniel and 15 year-old Isobel were a little careless about their electricity use.They often forgot to switch off the lights, unplug their laptops and left the central heating on, as they dashed out to school, each morning - However, that was all before the family took part in an unusual experiment conducted by British television station BBC One, for its science show 'Big Bang Theory'....

Yi Cui, an assistant professor for material sciences and engineering at Calfornia's prestigious Stanford University has come up with an ingenious and lightweight way to store power - making batteries using plain-vanilla copier paper....

On December 17th, 1903 the Wright brothers revolutionized our world when they piloted their first powered flight that went up 20ft, lasted for 12 seconds and traveled a distance of 120ft. Now, almost 106 years later, two Swiss inventors have achieved a similar feat, with the successful maiden voyage of the world's first piloted solar-powered airplane - the Solar Impulse....

While the soil of our favorite Red Planet may now seem arid and inhospitable - one where water is scarce or non-existent, this may not have been the case, billions of years ago....

California's Death Valley, located in the Mohave Desert in the Southwestern region of America, is well-known for its extreme temperatures, varied altitude that ranges from 282ft. below sea level to 11,000ft. above, and its beautiful rugged terrain....

The next time someone calls you a 'pinhead', you should take it as a compliment - That's because researchers recently revealed that the size of animals' brain, has no bearing on its intelligence level....

On Monday, Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, carrying with it, six astronauts, 30,000 pounds of pumps, numerous tanks of nitrogen, ammonia and oxygen and . . . . . . 4,000 slithery worms!...

On 25th of October, thirty-two teams gathered in Darwin, Australia to compete in the 2009 Global Green Challenge - A biennial, 1,860 mile race, in which environmentally-friendly cars, vie against each other, under the harsh conditions of the Australian Outback....