Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looking for a simple and exciting science activity you can try at home or in the classroom? The “Dancing Popcorn” experiment is a ...

Students from Eastway Elementary School were hand-picked to take part in a special experiment involving popcorn in space. The students sent a container of unpopped corn into space on a large ...

For a lot of us, making popcorn is the reason we own a microwave oven. Now, our favorite snack food – Americans eat more than 1 billion pounds of popcorn a year – has taken a hit. The chemical ...

Popcorn has been around since 3600 B.C., according to archaeologists who have found popcorn remnants during research digs. Who knows how popcorn was originally discovered — but it is quite likely it ...

We’ve all scarfed it down at the movies and made necklaces with it as children. But while we were getting liquid butter all over our hands and faces, roboticists at Cornell University’s Collective ...

Editor's note: It's National Popcorn Day! We're celebrating by bringing back this tale, first published in 2014, about the history of the beloved snack. Popcorn is a truly ancient snack.