I'm from a small village on the southeast coast of Scotland. It's a very small place, not very many people live there. I liked growing up there, but I think…

Child: Why does cutting onions make us cry? Scientist: For a vegetable, onions have very complicated chemistry. When you cut them, a chemical reaction changes molecules in the onion into…

One day, a hare saw a tortoise walking very slowly. The hare laughed and said, “You are so slow! I am very fast!” The tortoise smiled and said, “Let’s have…

Child: What is a cloud? Scientist: We all enjoy looking at clouds and seeing their different shapes, but what's the science behind them? Well, the sky is full of drops…

Interviewer: Have you ever been asked a strange question in an interview? Alice: There's one I can think of, which was when I was being interviewed for a job with…

Child: Why do we have a leap year? Scientist: A year is the amount of time it takes the Earth to go around the Sun, and we've divided our calendar…

Aladdin was a poor boy who lived in a big city. One day, a bad magician asked him to enter a dark cave and take a special lamp. Inside the…

Child: Why do we blink? Scientist: A "blink of an eye" lasts only a tenth of a second. Every time you blink, your eyelids spread fluid across the surface of…

Interviewer: Have you ever been asked a strange question in an interview? Heidi: Yes, I have, that was many years ago, it was one of my first job interviews, in…

Child: Why is the sea salty? Scientist: Most of our planet's surface is covered in salt water. But where does the salt come from? Well, some of it comes from…