Seventh-grade students at Barrows STEM Academy have been working hard on their chemistry unit. To celebrate the unit, the students participated in National Bottle Rocket Day with a hands-on experiment ...

You know how there’s different levels to “Don’t try this at home”? One is absolutely not are you crazy you will die and the other is eh, I think it’s safe enough to do. Lighting steel wool on fire and ...

Normally, oxidation is boring: You leave a wet steel wool scrubbing pad on your sink and a few days later you wind up with a rusty pad and a stain on your counter. But speed the oxidation up a bit—say ...

Resembling a thousand sparklers on fire, this stunning image pits the shining Milky Way as a backdrop to the spinning landscape below. This unique method of photography is called steel wool spinning.