Hi, I’m Ken Kuwako, your Science Trainer. Every day is an experiment. Why does cutting an onion make you cry? You run into onions in the kitchen almost every day, but they’re actually pretty fascinating plants. This time, I took a good, close look at one. Onions Are Monocots Onions are monocots. That means that […]

Ken Kuwako here, your Science Trainer. Every day is an experiment. When you cut open an apple, do you toss the core because it’s “the part you can’t eat”? Here’s a twist: in the world of botany, that discarded core is the real fruit. So what, exactly, is the sweet, juicy part we all love […]

I’m Ken Kuwako, your Science Trainer. Every day is an experiment! Have you ever noticed that a bicycle keeps rolling straight even when you let go of the handlebars? Strangely enough, those little spinning wheels have a deep connection to the way rockets hold their position in space. They look like completely different machines, but […]

Hi, I’m Ken Kuwako, your Science Trainer. Every day is an experiment! I pulled a bag of potato chips out of my backpack on a mountaintop at 2,237 meters, and it was puffed up like a balloon. It looked perfectly normal when I bought it at the supermarket down below. So what happened? And the […]

Hi, I’m Ken Kuwako, your friendly Science Trainer. Every day is an experiment! 【This article is also available as a radio episode!】 Quick question: do you have a pencil nearby? If so, let’s try a little experiment. Pinch the pencil between your two index fingers, one on each end, and press them together. How does […]