Few minor injuries are as painful as the dreaded paper cut. Just thinking about it probably makes you cringe. However, these cuts are usually small, hardly noticeable, and rarely bleed. So what ...

Fish do drink water, but how they consume it depends on where they live. Water gets into a fish's body through osmosis, the process in which water diffuses from a higher to a lower concentration.

Heat is a measure of molecular activity: the faster a thing's molecules move, the more heat that substance contains. And because everything is made of molecules, and molecules are in constant ...

Let's follow salt into the digestive system and see what happens. In the wall of the small intestine, the salt is absorbed into your bloodstream, making your blood saltier than it was before.

If blood didn't circulate through our bodies, carrying oxygen and nutrients, people wouldn't be able to live. Blood is so important to life that the body constantly makes new blood. There are ...

A listener from Ontario, California wrote to A Moment of Science with a question her sons had asked her. The boys wondered why is it that when you get sunburned you often feel chilled. It really ...

The thaumatrope was invented by an English physician named J. A. Paris in eighteen-twenty-six. It's credited with being the first cinematographic device and shows us something interesting about ...

What makes kitchen plastic wrap cling so maddeningly to itself, and so conveniently to the sides of bowls and plates? Plastic wrap clings for two reasons: it's elastic and it's sticky. That ...

Don Hirose and a friend had an interesting argument. Don's friend was sure that when you eat an egg you're eating a baby chick, but Don didn't think so. They made a bet and came to A Moment of ...

Mark Hood is a professor of audio engineering at Indiana University, and he owns Echo Park Studios. He's worked with big stars like George Benson, James Taylor, and Bob Dylan, but before that he ...

Monroe County’s COVID-19 vaccination rate is now at 52.8% for the local population eligible for the shot age 12 and older. County health officials have said for months the goal is to reach 70-75 ...

In the gallery where the triennial faculty show is on view at the Indiana University Art Museum, there's an arrangement of work that might not immediately seem interrelated. Guggenheim-Award ...