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.

In a system like this, the water is heated by pressure, but it never boils.

On witnessing the first test of the atomic bomb, which he had helped to develop during his work with the Manhattan Project, Dr.

Among the many awesome views of nebulae, released by NASA, is this one of the Orion Nebula (also known as M42).

Hubble, the orbiting space telescope, has taken sensational pictures over many years. This picture is actually a merger of 15 separate images ending i...

This image depicts the Orion Nebula OMC-1 Region. The Hubble Space Telescope took this image.What is going on in this image, and how did it come toget...

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac(1902-1984), a British physicist known as a man of few words, developed a stunning equation in 1928. His ideas led to today'...

The Romans had a preferred method of execution, known as crucifixion, which confronted victims with a tortuous way to die.

It's September, 1928, when Alexander Fleming sees something unusual in a culture plate. What he found changes the infection-fighting world, going on t...

The story of penicillin is an interesting one, starting with its name. "Penicillium" means "painter's brush" in Latin. Under a microscope, that's exac...

The thin sac which encloses a human's heart is called the "pericardium.

On the 8th of October, 1871, Peshtigo was a mill town in Wisconsin.

How does photosynethesis work?

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