Science news articles about 'toys'

... of Texas at Arlington, recalls playing with wooden toy boats that were propelled forward when a drop of oil ...

... a Texas Instruments Speak & Spell learning toy, a vintage 1980s Casio keyboard and a Little Tikes toy megaphone have in common? All can be dismantled, rewired and transformed into musical instruments through a process ...

No toy or model versions of NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander are available.

... funding for the project. Specifically, they were hoping to develop toy controls for games that would rely on the use of the wrist ... , the researchers wanted to be able to obtain information from the use of the toys. So the controls are equipped with data logging ...

... that the recently unveiled snowmobiles are unmanned, autonomous, toy-size robots called SnoMotes – the first ... University in State College, Pa., to create the toy-like robots. The robots are designed to traverse ...

... House legislation that bans lead from children's toys and seeks to ensure that chemicals posing possible ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. lawmakers said President George Bush is expected to sign a law banning lead and six types of phthalates in toys.

RMIT University’s Phred Petersen won the 2008 New Scientist Eureka Prize for Scientific Photography for photographing a toy rocket with a Schlieren lens. read more

Health Canada on Friday acknowledged consumer concern over recently recalled children's products for high lead levels, saying parents should feel safe purchasing toys for their children.

... and lack of interest in people. "The finding that the unusual use of toys is also present early in life means that this behavior ...

Health Canada has issued a recall of about 2.5 million plush toys for safety concerns.

... Good Housekeeping’s first annual Best Toy Awards, the editors looked at hundreds of playthings ...

... hide or flee in panic. Most shoppers headed to the Toys R Us in Palm Desert on Friday ...

... jumped up and yelled, "We're gonna have toys! We're gonna have more toys!" As he predicted, the next ...

... of this bio-plastic already exist, but it is not suitable for toys in this form: To separate the lignin from the cell fibers ... are usually soluble in water – and therefore unsuitable for toys. On no account must they dissolve if they are left ...