STEM Chapters

Science, technology, engineering and math are key subjects to study in today's rapidly changing, technology-based society. They are also great subjects for interesting stories.

Certain types of atoms, like uranium 235, can split. The splitting of those atoms is called nuclear fission.

The Wright brothers discover how to test lift and drag and how to use a propeller in the air.

This illustration, produced by Currier & Ives sometime between 1856 and 1907, depicts (in the foreground) whalers in an open boat hunting a Right ...

See stunning pictures from the repaired Hubble telescope lens.

Andrew Hodges, the biographer of Alan Turing, took this picture of Bletchley Park huts as they appeared in 1998. He describes the photo:  "Hut Ei...

The Titanic hits the iceberg soon after Frederick Fleet sees it.

How are icebergs formed and why are they dangerous?

Constant snowcover on K2 masks openings to ice caves and crevasses.

Although Titanic receives ice warnings via wireless messages from nearby ships, it is likely her captain does not know about them.

Iguazu Falls is a huge, cascading waterfall at the border of Argentina and Brazil.

Machu Picchu is an extremely important part of the Inca Empire. It is located high in the Andes and mummies are found there in 1911.

In March of 1977, the world's worst aircraft disaster occurs at Tenerife. After striking a Pan Am 747, a KLM 747 explodes in a ball of fire, killing e...

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