Interacting with plants is good for kids, but even when it's too cold to get outside and into the yard or garden, you can still use some simple plant science experiments to sharpen your little ones’ ...

Katie Murphy is a plant biologist. She researches corn and tobacco plants at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri. She’s also the host of “Real Time Science,” a series of ...

Buckets, kitchen utensils, rocks, paint, an old staircase with plastic planters, little toy cars, tiny shovels and forks. These are what fifth-graders at Manzanita Elementary School used to build ...

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to Live Science in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Simon Kashchock-Marenda was in the sixth grade when he decided to study the effects of ...