Cooper, Christopher

A look at the tools and techniques used by forensic scientists in solving crimes, from fingerprint analysis to DNA testing.

Exposes the flaws in the Homeland Security Department and America's emergency response system that caused further destruction and devastation in the New Orleans region after Hurrican Katrina in August, 2005.

Examines the elements that make up the physical world and the properties and behavior of different kinds of matter.

Examines the characteristics of the planets and other heavenly bodies in our solar system.

Provides information about the effects of forces and motion in the physical world, and includes a selection of related experiments.

Presents an introduction to sound, explaining what sound is, how it is made, and how it travels, describing how sounds can be changed, as well as discussing how people talk and hear, and how sound is recorded. Includes suggestions for experiments and demonstrations.

Provides information about magnetism, explaining what it is, what causes magnetism, and how and why it works, and introducing the scientists who discovered magnetism. Includes related experiments.

Provides information about light, answering questions such as what it is, how it is made, how it moves, and why things have color, and includes a selection of related experiments and demonstrations.

Provides an introduction to electricity, explaining what it is, what it is made of, and how it is generated and used, and includes a selection of related science activities.