"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...

When Jesse stops by The Curiosity Shop, her favorite place to snoop around, she uncovers an old painting in a dusty, antique steamer trunk. But what happens later that night when Jesse is startled by a creepy eyeball? Find out how Professor Peach helps her use the skills of an artist to uncover the mystery of The Hint in the Peeping Pupil--

In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and military planners care about many of the same things: multi-spectral detection,...

Kids will see things in a whole new way as they play their way through these stories and activities focused on science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Learn about science through weather, animals, and the environment. Learn about health, the body, and DNA. Develop creative problem-solving skills.