Michael Geisen, an Oregon middle school teacher and a former forester, was named the 2008 National Teacher of the Year last week at the White House. Mr. Geisen, 35, who began teaching at Crook County ...

With a goal of making scientific knowledge more freely available to researchers and the public, ORE has spent the first year of its existence establishing its profile and winning over the scientific ...

On a stormy day in the summer of 1952, the mining entrepreneur Lang Hancock and his wife Hope were flying from his asbestos mine in Nunyerry in the north of Western Australia towards Perth, when ...

An archaeologist discovered an intact ancient iron ore mine in South America that shows how civilizations before the Inca Empire were mining this valuable ore. The Nasca people may have used the ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A lighting storm raked Central Oregon and started about 150 range fires, one of which has grown to 10,000 acres and forced the evacuation of a science camp for kids. About 55 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Fire officials say a Portland high school science lab filled with smoke when water came in contact with a volatile metal. Medics and school nurses checked 11 students and a ...

INDEPENDENCE, Ore. — Science teacher Greg Craven had one night before the last day of school to finish “The Most Terrifying Video You’ll Ever See” in time to let his high-school students know about it ...

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