Camping with the kids doesn't have to mean expensive cooking gear. You can learn, save money, and have fun by making this ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You don’t need a gas stove to cook a hot meal while you’re out ...

A solar oven can be a lifesaver during a blackout or other emergency—or it can be a low-maintenance alternative to other outdoor cooking methods. While you can make a solar oven using just a cardboard ...

We have also invested considerable time and some money experimenting with the many ways to cook food with the sun. Just imagine! You can actually take scrap materials–old cardboard boxes, newspaper, a ...

Eco-friendly weblog The Daily Green details how to turn a cardboard box into a DIY solar oven for a little weekend fun in the sun. All you'll need is the box, some construction paper, tin foil, ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Celebrate National S’mores day with this DIY solar oven. The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, or ORISE, shares this fun activity as a way for families to learn ...

Like a conventional oven, your homemade solar oven can turn dough into muffins or other baked goods of your choice. When the sun is shining, we like to use our homemade solar oven for cooking and ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Welcome to PopSci’s at-home science projects series. On weekdays ...

This March in Minnesota, our solar oven got hot enough to bake a killer batch of scones—and in the summer, it can whip up brownies in a brownout. The project makes use of scraps (or full 4 x 8 sheets) ...

Schools might be out for the summer, but that doesn’t mean the science fun needs to stop. Bill Nye the Science Guy writer Lynn Brunelle and Liz Heinecke, author of Outdoor Science Lab for Kids, share ...

Not all students are relaxing on their summer break. Some are working on an oven that could help fight world hunger. "We call it a hybrid-barrel-panel design because it's a cylinder but it also ...

A Palestinian man living in Gaza is helping his community overcome chronic energy shortages with affordable DIY solar ovens. Life in the Gaza Strip is challenging, to say the least. The day-to-day ...