Science
To make maths classes sizzle, inject some politics...
Relating mathematics to questions that are relevant to many students can help address its image prob...
Quantum computers in use today are vulnerable to e...
Companies such as IBM offer timeshare access to prototype quantum computers, but researchers have sh...
COP27: Brazil's Lula promises zero deforestation i...
Brazil’s incoming president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to reverse the environmentally damaging ...
Acid produced by the brain could drive disease-rel...
Kynurenic acid is made in the brain and could play a role in psychosis related to schizophrenia, Alz...
Viewing chronic pain as its own illness is providi...
Doctors are starting to see chronic pain as a condition in its own right, which is leading to new an...
We are only just beginning to understand what caus...
This new kind of pain is poorly understood, as there is often no sign of injury, but as Graham Lawto...
New ways to measure pain can help us communicate h...
Advances in neuroimaging, AI and wearable tech are helping to overcome the problems we face in havin...
The new pain treatments that may finally stem the ...
Why talk and behaviour-based interventions that don’t use any drugs, as well as genetic therapy and ...
Why emotions can feel so painful – and what it mea...
A new understanding of the link between emotions and physical pain is helping identify the root caus...
What is pain, how does it work and what happens wh...
With a growing number of people living with pain, we desperately need to understand it – but we are ...
Landslides can be triggered by small changes in at...
We knew earthquakes and heavy rain could initiate landslides, but now it seems alterations in atmosp...
NASA’s enormous SLS rocket has launched to space f...
The powerful Space Launch System rocket has finally launched. It took off from Cape Canaveral this m...
A stack of Apple laptops could work as a powerful ...
Supercomputers are expensive to buy and run, but connecting up lots of consumer Apple computers that...
Crucial Congo rainforest faces growing threats fro...
The area of forest felled in the Congo basin rose last year, but schemes giving power to Indigenous ...
Pre-eclampsia may raise a fetus's risk of heart di...
Children and teenagers who were exposed to pre-eclampsia in the uterus may be more likely to have a ...
Leprosy bacteria may hold the key to helping the l...
The bacteria that cause leprosy have been found to reprogram liver cells in armadillos and make the ...
How will AIs that generate videos from text transf...
Artificial intelligences that turn text into video are making rapid progress, but are we ready for a...
We now know why some poos float and others sink
Experiments with mouse and human faeces have provided the most definitive proof yet that gas-produci...
How to tell the difference between a regular black...
Physicists have worked out how to see whether a black hole is actually a wormhole that could theoret...
Climate negotiations are in disarray as COP27 ente...
Talks in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, are running well behind schedule, with discussions on key areas suc...
Roger Penrose: "Consciousness must be beyond compu...
The mathematician shares his latest theories on quantum consciousness, the structure of the universe...
Feeding cows hemp makes them ‘high’ and their milk...
Cows fed waste hemp from the cannabis industry produce the psychoactive compound THC in their milk a...
Nuclear fusion reactions create unexpectedly high-...
Burning plasma fusion reactions, which have only recently been created, are producing higher-energy ...
Early humans may have cooked fish in ovens 780,000...
The remains of fish teeth at an archaeological site in Israel appear to have been cooked with contro...
Secretive US space plane X-37B lands after record ...
The X-37B has returned to Earth after more than two years in orbit, breaking its previous record – w...
What is 'loss and damage' and how is it informed b...
Advances in attribution science mean we can pin the blame for extreme weather on polluting nations, ...
Australia’s life expectancy has risen to third-hig...
A child born in Australia today is expected to live until the age of 84.3, giving the nation the thi...
Honeybees are living half as long as they were 50 ...
The lifespan of bees raised in US laboratories is half what it was in the 1970s, suggesting there ma...
Vaccine Confidence Resources from The Lawrence Hal...
"Last year this COVID-19 scared me. It’s not so scary when you’re doing science about it with everyo...
Activity Extensions for the Moon Adventure Game fr...
Have you ever wondered what challenges astronauts of the future will encounter when they live and wo...
The microbial gunk that hardens on teeth is reveal...
Plaque fossilises while we are still alive. Now, dental calculus is giving up the secrets of our anc...
Nature Journaling- The Ultimate Outdoor STEAM Acti...
Whether you live in the heart of a big city, the rural countryside, or any place in between, our bac...
At-Home Activities Team Stipends
With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Children’s Creativity Museum and...
An updated list of museums offering at-home activi...
As part of our continued efforts to support educators, families, and learners during the current pub...
howtosmile and Earth Day, April 22nd
This is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day—one of the biggest science events of the year. 2020 brings...
2020: 10 years of howtosmile
Launched in 2010, howtosmile was started by a group of science museums dedicated to sharing great sc...
What’s in the Explore Science: Earth & Space 2018 ...
In collaboration with NASA, the National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Net) has released a N...
Homeschool Base names howtosmile.org as one the be...
The new year brings another award for howtosmile. Homeschool Base, the internet's largest volunteer ...
Explore Science: Earth & Space 2017 digital toolki...
The National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Net), in collaboration with NASA, has just releas...
