On a breezy spring afternoon at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, designer Jake Barton is watching a pair of middle schoolers chuck an iPod across a playground while another kid films the scene ...

So Oh. Yeah. Yeah. This is all about having combining the engineering design process and the physics theory. It uses impulse momentum, Newton's laws of motion, and kinematics, which is what they've ...

Chances are the shelter-in-place orders taking effect nationwide have interrupted your kids’ schooling, and as a result, keeping them cooped up has made them destroy everything you once called “home,” ...

If you're anything like us, you probably spent many an hour in your younger days bouncing up and down on a seesaw (or teeter-totter or teeter board, depending on where you grew up. And, even now, you ...

BUENA PARK – Anna Do, a Fountain Valley High School senior, peered down the side of a protractor and examined the 11-story roller coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm Thursday. If she measured the angles ...

UNION CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- Talking about Newton's Second Law of Motion may not be too appealing to a bunch of sixth-graders. But if you do it in an unconventional science lesson, well that's a game ...

Usually when an amateur bowler toes the line in front of a lane and ten pins, they’re not thinking about much else besides hurling their ball so it hits its target head on. But the physics of the game ...

Staff photos / David Skolnick Brad Burgoyne, left, and Quinlan Bulick, Poland Seminary High School seniors, stack folded index cards to build a house of cards at the Youngstown State University’s ...

Clutching the handles and crossing her legs, Miren Stein positioned herself on the large gray apparatus and prepared for takeoff. Stein, 4, certainly wasn’t expecting to encounter a hovercraft during ...

Physics can be daunting for many students, but educators on the Physics Bus are trying to change that. Educators on the big silver bus showcase novel exhibits built out of everyday items, ...