(July 24, 2014: See the editor's note at the bottom of this page for an explanation of the story's new headline.) When 12-year-old Lauren Arrington heard about her sixth-grade science project, she ...

Thirteen-year-old Lauren Arrington has been busy on the media circuit these past few weeks, doing interview after interview about the sixth-grade science project that landed her in a published ...

Fifty-eight percent of parents said their child has asked for their help with math Homeschooling is not so easy. The average American parent’s science and math knowledge taps out around the ...

Kati Stasko did not set out to be a teacher. “If you would have told me seven years ago, while I was wading chest-deep through alligator-infested waters to help an injured manatee, that one day I ...

Twenty-three countries reach a historic deal to cut oil output, airlines find aid terms hard to swallow and millions of Christians celebrate Easter in isolation. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday has the latest ...

(TNS) — For 12-year-old Manasa Hari Bhimaraju, who until recently thought the coolest thing in the world would be a visit to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Wednesday may have exceeded ...

A sixth-grader's project for her school's science fair made waves among academics studying the invasive lionfish that infest many U.S. waters. These colorful fish, equipped with venomous spines, can ...

Have you ever felt like your dog had a sixth sense? We know they have outstanding hearing (they’re at our door waiting when we’re a mile away from home) and an unbelievable sense of smell. But they ...

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Earth may be in the early stages of a sixth mass extinction, an international team of scientists says. Animals and plants are threatened. More than 320 land vertebrates have gone extinct since 1500, ...