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.
October 20, 2015 Ooooooooh Tannenbaum: Huge DNA code of the Christmas tree beginning to yield its secrets Scientists say they're making progress on a huge project: mapping the DNA of the Christmas tree.
October 20, 2015 Math, science scores for some US students improving, but lag behind many in Asia, Europe An international study shows American students perform better than the global average, but still lag behind many of their peers in Asia and Europe.
October 20, 2015 'The Next MacGyver' winners hope to bring women in STEM to prime-time The winners of 'The Next MacGyver' aim to bring women in STEM to TV.
