Six-year-old Brenden Ethridge was so excited he could barely contain himself. “Oh gosh,” he shouted after learning he and other campers at Thursday’s session of Discovery Science Place’s chemical ...

These test-tube lamps, on display at Germany’s “Early Bird” design show, could be the future of design — after mad science overruns the world, we’ll have to use science-gear to furnish our homes.

Each morning at 7, Brian Wolf, the fire chief of Racine, Wisconsin, arrives for work in a neglected corner of a building called the City Hall Annex. A stately, Depression-era brick structure on a ...