October 21, 2015 Junior genius: Winners of the 2013 Google Science Fair The winners of the 2013 Google Science Awards have some incredible ideas for how to improve the world around us. And these you geniuses have room to grow: The contest is for students age 13-18.
October 21, 2015 Lawsuit filed in Kansas to block climate change, evolution curriculum An anti-evolution group filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to block Kansas from using new, multistate science standards in its public schools, arguing the guidelines promote atheism and violate students' and parents' religious freedom.
October 21, 2015 A report about reports about reports? Yep, at this year’s Ig Nobel awards A U.S. government agency has earned a literature prize for issuing a report about reports about reports -- and concluding that a new report ought to be prepared to sum it all up.
October 21, 2015 'The Next MacGyver' competition aims to encourage more women to pursue STEM Back when she was growing up, Veronica Eliasson used to be rooted in front of her family’s television watching “MacGyver” with her younger brother. The long-running action-adventure series followed the exploits of an American secret agent who came up with inventive solutions to difficult problems by engineering tools out of everyday things. Think objects like duct tape, for instance. The show had worldwide appeal, and for the young Eliasson, whose father always told her she should become an engineer, it opened her eyes to the fact that science could be fun — and exciting.
October 21, 2015 New poll says Big Bang theory a big question for many Americans While scientists believe the universe began with a Big Bang, most Americans put a big question mark on the concept, an Associated Press-GfK poll found.
October 21, 2015 Not quite cold fusion: Experiments for freezing temperatures Single-digit temperatures may not be much fun, but they can make for some interesting experiments.
October 21, 2015 Ask a science teacher: What creates the wind? Wind is caused by a difference in pressure from one area to another area on the surface of the Earth. Air naturally moves from high to low pressure, and when it does so, it is called wind.
October 21, 2015 Ask a science teacher: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Every generation has argued this question.
October 21, 2015 Lego releases first female scientist Wearing glasses and a lab coat, and holding out two Erlenmeyer flasks, Professor C. Bodin (as her nametag reads) is Lego's first female scientist.
October 21, 2015 Congressional debate over science funding draws fire from critics A battle over science is under way in the halls of the Capitol, with some in Congress calling for more say in which research projects receive federal dollars.
