Science World

From tiny atoms to towering volcanoes, science helps us understand how everything around us works. Meet the scientists, discoveries, and amazing phenomena that changed the way people see the world.

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Isaac Newton explained the laws of motion and gravity, changing how people understood the universe (Wikimedia Commons)Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein developed the theory of relativity and is one of the most famous scientists in history (Wikimedia Commons)Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin studied plants and animals around the world and developed the theory of evolution (Wikimedia Commons)Charles Darwin
Marie Curie discovered new elements and was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences (Wikimedia Commons)Marie Curie
Nikola Tesla was an inventor whose work helped bring electricity into homes around the world (Wikimedia Commons)Nikola Tesla
Galileo Galilei improved the telescope and used it to study the sky, supporting the idea that Earth orbits the Sun (Wikimedia Commons)Galileo Galilei
Gregor Mendel studied pea plants and discovered the basic rules of how traits are passed from parents to offspring (Wikimedia Commons)Gregor Mendel
Louis Pasteur showed that tiny germs cause disease and invented a process called pasteurization to keep food safe (Wikimedia Commons)Louis Pasteur
Benjamin Franklin experimented with electricity and helped show that lightning is a form of it (Wikimedia Commons)Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first modern antibiotic, which has saved millions of lives (Wikimedia Commons)Alexander Fleming
DNA carries the instructions that make every living thing, twisted into a shape called a double helix (Wikimedia Commons)DNA Double Helix
Cells are the tiny building blocks that make up every living thing, from plants to people (Wikimedia Commons)Animal Cell
Photosynthesis is how plants turn sunlight, water, and air into the food and oxygen that living things need (Wikimedia Commons)Photosynthesis
The periodic table organizes every known chemical element by its properties, from hydrogen to the heaviest metals (Wikimedia Commons)Periodic Table
Atoms are the tiny particles that make up all matter, with a nucleus at the center and electrons zipping around it (Wikimedia Commons)Atom Model
Crystals like quartz grow in neat repeating patterns of atoms, forming beautiful natural shapes (Wikimedia Commons)Quartz Crystal
Magnets create an invisible force that can pull certain metals toward them or push other magnets away (Wikimedia Commons)Magnetism
A glass prism can split white light into a rainbow of colors by bending each color a different amount (Wikimedia Commons)Light Through a Prism
A Van de Graaff generator builds up static electricity, strong enough to make hair stand straight up (Wikimedia Commons)Static Electricity
Different chemicals burn in different colors, a trick chemists use to identify what a substance is made of (Wikimedia Commons)Colorful Chemical Flames
Volcanoes form when hot melted rock from deep underground bursts up through the Earth's surface (Wikimedia Commons)Volcano
Lightning is a giant spark of electricity that jumps between clouds or between a cloud and the ground (Wikimedia Commons)Lightning
A rainbow appears when sunlight passes through raindrops and splits into all the colors of light (Wikimedia Commons)Rainbow
The aurora borealis, or northern lights, glow when particles from the sun collide with gases in Earth's atmosphere (Wikimedia Commons)Aurora Borealis
Geysers like Old Faithful shoot boiling water into the air when underground heat turns trapped water into steam (Wikimedia Commons)Geyser
The water cycle describes how water moves between the oceans, the sky, and the land, again and again (Wikimedia Commons)Water Cycle
A solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, briefly blocking out the sunlight (Wikimedia Commons)Solar Eclipse
Wind turbines use the power of moving air to spin huge blades and generate clean electricity (Wikimedia Commons)Wind Turbine
Telescopes gather light to help scientists see stars, planets, and galaxies far beyond what the human eye can spot (Wikimedia Commons)Telescope
Microscopes let scientists zoom in on things far too small to see with the naked eye, like cells and germs (Wikimedia Commons)Microscope