Water is all around us, yet its surface layer—home to chemical reactions that shape life on Earth—is surprisingly hard to study. Experiments at SLAC's X-ray laser are bringing it into focus.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — We have two holidays to celebrate this week - Saint Patrick’s Day and the start of spring. Today’s experiment ties in both of those holidays. The experiment, sometimes called "walking ...

Place cups in a row (I used five cups). Fill the first, third and fifth cups most of the way full. Add food coloring to the water. To make a rainbow effect, add a few drops of blue color to the first ...

Earth's deep mantle stored enough water in rocks to equal one ocean during our planet's early molten days, helping explain ...

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have achieved the first experimental observation of a fragile-to-strong transition in deeply supercooled water, resolving a scientific puzzle ...

While the cold weather may deter many from going outside, others like to take advantage of the freezing temperatures and test out different science experiments. From blowing frozen bubbles to throwing ...

WASHINGTON, March 28, 2011 — What may be the world's largest chemistry experiment in history launched last week as part of the International Year of Chemistry 2011. The American Chemical Society (ACS) ...

A scientist at England’s University of Reading shared a video of a unique water experiment he conducted that shows how water is absorbed into different soils. Rob Thompson, who conducted the ...

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 ...

A Central Valley farmer, whose bold experiment of flooding his vineyards and orchards with floodwaters in order to replenish the underground aquifer, has led other farmers in the drought-ravaged ...

Taking the risk of swallowing ten grams (about third of an ounce or teaspoonful) of “heavy water,” Prof. Klaus Hansen, Oslo University pharmacologist, reported that he had apparently suffered no ill ...

Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the nature of Danielle Albers' injuries. She suffered second- and third-degree burns. Danielle and Chad Albers just wanted to ...