Raphael Gomes turns everyday kitchen ingredients into fun science-style experiments anyone can try.

One summer day a young Martin Chalfie walked out of a lab after a particularly frustrating experiment. He thought—quite erroneously—that the life of a scientist was not for him. After teaching high ...

In 1828, German chemist Friedrich Wöhler synthesized urea from inorganic compounds, a substance previously thought only producible by living organisms. This groundbreaking experiment challenged the ...