Boost your green thumb and plant biology know-how with a dose of sci-fi-inspired plant science. You can clone new cabbage plants from another cabbage. When cloning cabbages, which part of the heart do you use? 

The full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope, designed by Northrop Grumman, was on display in Texas last month. The telescope posed extreme design challenges that students can explore.

Kitchen scientists can investigate the best way to soft boil an egg. What technique offers great results time after time? While boiling eggs, you can also examine the pores in an egg's shell, like this family did.

An egg breaks when you sit on it, but eggs can also be quite strong. Explore egg strength, the use of arches in structural engineering, and other hands-on explorations for student builders and engineers.

For daredevil surfers and fans of extreme surfing, Mavericks in Northern California is in a class of its own. What is the story on the ocean floor that creates the notorious big waves?