For Baby Boomers, science class wasn’t just about memorizing facts — it was about hands-on experiments that could be messy, exciting, or even slightly dangerous. From the 1950s through the 1970s, ...

As a student teacher I witnessed extreme inequalities in how science is communicated and taught at California elementary schools. My first teaching experience was as a STEM (science, technology, ...

The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s energy, threatening life on Earth with extinction. To find a solution, an ...