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.

PG&E passes out flyers to residents suggesting their chemicals are not harmful and even make them sound helpful.

The first ten years of Hubbles images are blurry, but repairs to the telescope have solved the problem.

Special gases allow people to breathe underwater and avoid oxygen toxicity and "the bends."

China has beautiful mountains once covered by trees, but many forest areas are being destroyed.

Mountain sickness, with its common symptoms of dry cough and shortness of breath, can strike above 8,000 feet.

Scientists believe that the earth's surface is broken into areas called tectonic plates, which can move to cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Whenever a human being dives underwater, pressure on the body intensifies and can cause serious injuries (including death).

The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert in Peru.

The Titanic sank only 300 miles away from the last-known location of the Andrea Gail.

New discoveries of known and unknown dinosaurs continue to provide new information about Earth's past.

Examine notable nebulae.

Albert Einstein is the first to understand that matter can become energy and theorizes the equation (E=mc2).

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