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.

Pliny the Younger witnesses the eruption as townspeople take refuge in their homes.

Modern scholars wonder if other diseases and bacteria accompanied the medieval-era plague, and that's why it was so infectious and deadly.

Huge fires break out in several other Midwest cities on the same day, in 1871, that Chicago burns.

A list of resources and lesson plan sites for all levels in the study of Monarch butterflies.

In the late 1800s in Cuba, Father Benito Vines trains people to predict hurricanes. U.S. forecasters are reluctant to use his data.

Dew is not only beautiful on a spider's web, it also provides the spider with essential drinking water.

Robert E. Sticker created an oil painting interpreting the “Nantucket Sleigh Ride,” an adrenalin-producing event which occurred after whal...

When we use trees to make things, we produce waste and destroy habitats so we must conserve this natural resource.

German Otto Beyersdorff concludes within five weeks that the exterior paint on the Hindenburg caught fire. It takes 60 years for U.S. scientists to ag...

Description of cocaine's effect on the human body and brain.

Within 34 seconds, the Hindenburg catches fire, remains level, but then bursts into flames and crashes. There are eyewitness reports, movies and photo...

This photo of a 4-rotor Enigma machine gives us a view of the rotors, the lamp board, the keyboard and a small view of the plugboard. Online via the U...

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