Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

Physicists using near-absolute-zero detectors have reached unprecedented sensitivity in the hunt for light dark matter. A ...

When students engage in hands-on, collaborative problem-solving, they see themselves as essential to their classroom ...

Three-year-old Hannah came home from school with a question. Her teacher had placed a frozen bowl of water and plastic animals on the table and the class saw it thaw. But how did it freeze in the ...

There's a whole world of home science projects beyond the vinegar and baking soda volcano. Credit: peopleimages via Getty Images The vinegar and baking soda volcano is a science fair classic, but ...

Harvesters reported a variety of reasons for collecting mushrooms. Many collected morels and chanterelles to eat, and species ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- As many of you stay at home with your kids, you may be running out of ways to keep them occupied. Mad Science Chicago is sharing some STEM experiments that are fun for the whole ...

Kengo Yamada remembers asking a class of kindergartners where they thought wind came from. “One said, ‘Trees make wind,’” says the associate director of early childhood education at New Jersey’s ...

I’m very much in favor of the effort to interest students of all ages in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) disciplines. Even if this does not increase the number of STEM professionals long ...

My colleague Sean Cavanagh, who covers math and science here at Education Week, recently wrote an article about science labs in elementary schools. According to the story, although science standards ...