Forget Harry Potter; when it comes to the real-life magic that is the wonder of science, the only real game in town is a mysterious and benevolent marvel known far and wide throughout the land as the ...

At the very same time during the 1950s that some young women wondered why they should study science when all they wanted to do was get married, and magazines aimed at teen girls and women did their ...

Don Herbert, better known to generations of TV viewers as Mr. Wizard, died yesterday at the age of 89. The cause was multiple myeloma. From the 1950s through to the 80s, Herbert brought science to the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An experiment began on March 3, 1951, in the studios of what is today NBC-5 in Chicago. The question it sought to answer was: Could television use ...

In the early years of television, Don Herbert explained principles of science to millions of American youngsters and established himself as one of America's great science educators, even though he ...

Don Herbert, best known for his role as Mr. Wizard, has died at the age of 89. With his passing, science has lost one of its most compelling and approachable spokesmen.