Updated 12-1-03

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Sci4Kids email alerts

Since the launch of Science For Kids onto the World Wide Web in September 1998, hundreds of email letters have been sent to the site's resident "scientist," Dr. Watts.

Here, on "The Email Bag" page, we invite you to read some of these questions, as well as the responses.

Often, Sci4Kids will pick the brains of ARS' top scientific minds for help on answering agriculture-related questions. That's why we think some of our email is worth sharing. Who knows, you might just learn the answer to a question that's been rattling around in your brain, but were afraid to ask.

If you're curious about topics related to agriculture, and what science has to do with it all, then let us know about it. If we think your question will interest other Sci4Kidders, we'll post it along with the answer on this page. You can email your question by clicking here, or on Dr. Watts, shown above.

Oh yeah, to check the email, simply click on the menu topics below.

Sci4Kids is an ARS website and follows its privacy policy, which you can read by clicking here.

• Question: What makes an apple an apple?

(18 items)

• Question: Which sours fastest, whole or skim milk?

• Question: Why do apples turn brown?

• Question: What's an ethnobotanist?

• Question: How do farmers use limestone?

• Question: Will popcorn kernels grow in sand?

• Question: Why do catfish have whiskers?

• Question: Why are my peas purple?

• Question: Why do flowers have certain colors?

• Question: What happens when milk spoils?

• Question: Why do cows have four stomachs?

• Question: How do you get red, ripe tomatoes?

• Question: How does saltwater affect a bean plant's growth?

• Question: What's an amoeba?

• Question: What's a bee to do?

• Question: How do you become a marine biologist?

• Question: What's the strongest bug?

• Question: Why are roundworms called roundworms?

• Question: How do caterpillars make cocoons?

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