It’s always nice to enjoy a nice cold glass of lemonade on a hot summer day. However, usually we need to add sugar to our lemon juice to make it worth drinking! This is because lemons are very acidic ...

Looking for a simple and exciting science activity you can try at home or in the classroom? The “Dancing Popcorn” experiment is a perfect blend of fun and learning.

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Gather your supplies! In this episode we will use everyday materials to explore pH and how it changes between acids and bases. Blackberries contain a chemical class called ...

This Friday (June 11), we will explore the eruptive realm of acid-base chemistry in our new kids video series: Summer School with Live Science. In this week's installment, Live Science producer, Diana ...

Learn how to test items at home to see if they are a base or an acid. Chemistry is everywhere. It is easy to learn how to use chemistry to test properties of things all around us. In this video, we ...

In 1952, a University of Chicago chemist named Stanley Miller and his adviser, Harold Urey, conducted a famous experiment. Their results, published the following year, provided the first evidence that ...

In the 1950s, biochemist Stanley Miller performed a series of experiments to demonstrate that organic compounds could be created under conditions mimicking the primordial Earth. Some unused samples ...

Venus may be a hellscape by our standards, but there’s a chance that some forms of life could evolve there. A new MIT study has now found that the building blocks of life are surprisingly stable in ...

Scientists have long known that some viruses and bacteria begin infections by latching first onto sugar molecules on the surfaces of cells lining the sinuses and throat of mammals, including humans.