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.

Madagascar is an ancient island, adrift in the Indian Ocean. Much of it is unlike anywhere else on Earth.

Sir David Attenborough explains how part of Africa and India was split-off, to exist on its own as the island of Madagascar, and introduces us to some...

From the BBC's "Planet Dinosaur," we see a clip of Majungasaurus behaving in a most extraordinary way - as a cannibal.

North and South Malosmadulu Atolls - part of the Republic of The Maldives in the Indian Ocean - look like Nature's gem stones when seen from space.

Mammatus clouds appear to be upside-down clouds which often appear during a thunderstorm.

This image depicts Marian Rejewski, one of the Poles whose work on examining - and understanding - the Enigma machine greatly helped the Allies during...

This image depicts Marian Rejewski, one of the Poles whose work on examining - and understanding - the Enigma machine greatly helped the Allies during...

Marie & Pierre Curie were married scientists who first isolated radioactive radium salts on the 20th of April, 1902. Learn more about their world-chan...

By the 27th of April, the Deepwater Horizon plume was moving toward the coastline of Louisiana.

They may remind us of Emperor Penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri), but Adelie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) are a different species. Learn more about them...

Early in the 17th century, William Buckland began to find some interesting fossils in the Stonesfield quarries (now known as the Taynton Limestone For...

Did ancient people view volcanic eruptions differently than we do?

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