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.

John Forbes Nash became a professor while most young people his age were still trying to determine their career paths.

Very bright as a child, John Nash would become a Nobel-Prize-winning mathematician.

Mike Everhart tells us where he and his wife, Pam, found the skull of a young male Pteranodon in an area of Smoky Hill Chalk, Kansas.

The illustration depicts a beating as a common method of "curing" insanity.

After the Essex was fatally struck by a whale, in 1820, the ship's steward retrieved a quadrant which the survivors would need as they used their open...

Huge amounts of oil are contained in the head of a sperm whale. This white whale, like the "Moby Dick" of Herman Melville's tale, also has a gigantic ...

Image of a photograph depicting a Navy diver on the ocean floor after the crash of TWA 800 into the Atlantic Ocean off the south shore of Long Island ...

A failed O-ring in the Right Solid Rocket Motor caused Challenger to explode and Mission STS 51-L to fail on the 28th of January, 1986.

This image depicts the Reflection Nebula in the Pleiades - IC 349.  The Hubble Space Telescope took this image.What we actually see here is a sta...

Reflection Nebula, aptly named, looks much like a street lamp, surrounded by fog. What causes its reflection-like appearance?

Ringed-tail lemurs live in the southern part of Madagascar - and nowhere else in the world (except for zoos).

Robert Goddard was given the title "Father of Modern Rocketry" by NASA for his impact on the science of rockets.

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