Your Go-To Guide to Glow Stick Science

Whether it’s a backyard barbecue, an outdoor concert, or an impromptu block party, glow sticks have an incredible ability to illuminate the magic of summer nights. As highly portable, self-contained chemical experiments in a tube, they’re also perfect STEM tools!…

Some Like It (Not Too) Hot: Understanding Heat and Enzyme Denaturation

Enzymes are the superheroes of the molecular world. They can catalyze reactions at rates many times faster than uncatalyzed reactions. They can be reused over and over again without being changed. (This means that a single enzyme molecule can have…

Hot Facts! Five Things You Didn’t Know About Body Temperature

If you’ve lived on earth this past year you’ve had your temperature taken. Ever wonder about the number that came up on the thermometer? Read on to find out some interesting facts about our temperatures. You may have heard that…