Sci/Why

Ethanol, hydrogen, solar, wind, and.... cockroach? That's right.  The coolest, creepiest source of green energy around is a biofuel ce...

What happens to creatures that live in the ocean if seawater becomes more acidic? This fun activity, excerpted from The Big Green Book of t...

By Pippa Wysong What has a million legs, a few thousand open doors and things that make you go ‘ooh!’ and ‘aww!’? If you said Science Rend...

by Jan Thornhill What’s not to like about monarchs? Their caterpillars are gorgeously striped. Their chrysalises are...

By Claire Eamer In a couple of months, I'll be touring schools and libraries in Ontario, talking about some of the marvellous and stra...

We all do it every day.  But who did it first? And when? People worldwide have chewed gum for hundreds of years. Resin from certain type...

By Claire Eamer The shrinking sea ice of the Arctic Ocean has been in the news a lot lately, along with photos of polar bears stranded on ...