STEM Story Briefs

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.

As oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, from the uncapped well at Mississippi Canyon 252, BP (British Petroleum) and the U.S. federal gover...

Johannes Gutenberg invented one of "the machines that made us."

When the earthquake struck Haiti on the 12th of January, 2010, massive damage and loss of life were not limited to Port-au-Prince and its immediate su...

During 1758, Halley's Comet appeared over the Hawaiian Islands; the same day, King Kamehameha I was born.

In this fictional setting, at Jurassic World, scientists working in the "Hammond Creation Lab" follow a detailed process to produce new dinosaur attra...

Francis Hauksbee invented this electrostatic generator which he, and others, used in early 18th-century scientific demonstrations.

Born into a very wealthy family, Henry Cavendish - a humble, eccentric man - devotes his life to science.

Hermann Oberth, one of the world's three "Fathers of Rocketry and Astronautics," became interested in his life's work when, at age 14, he read Jules V...

Johannes Hevelius was an astronomer who, for years, studied the sky without the benefit of a telescope. Born in 1611, in the town of Danzig—then...

See the instrument - an azimuthal quadrant - which Johannes Hevelius used to study the heavens ... and get accurate readings ... with the naked eye. ...

The "Higgs Boson" was "in the news" around the world on July 4, 2012. Scientists at CERN - in Europe - announced theymayhave found this particle foll...

Landing in New Jersey, following a thunderstorm, one of Germany's airships - theHindenburg- explodes on May 6, 1937. It disintegrates in less than a m...

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