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.

Was Einstein so brilliant that he could dismiss the unpredictability of quantum mechanics - or - was he simply wrong that everything (including outcom...

After delivering parts of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, the USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sinks in July of 1945. Years later, a 12-year-old school bo...

In these fearful times, watch a fearless baby Ibex as it outwits a preying fox.

The V-2 was developed by Hitler's team of rocket scientists, built by slave laborers and first used in September of 1944. The damage they caused, both...

On September 24, 2015, NASA reveals new images of Veil Nebula, a stunning remnant of a massive star which exploded about 8,000 years ago. New images d...

This diagram depicts Henry F. Osborn's 1924 drawing of a Velociraptor mongoliensis' skull and claw.

Mt. Vesuvius, an Italian landmark and one of the most famous volcanoes in the world, exists because it is located on a fault line running across Italy...

Uncovering Viking ships is like unearthing Pharaonic tombs. And uncovering Viking ancestry, via the Human Genome Project, is just as interesting.

This image depicts a fresco which was discovered in a Pompeii home known as the House of the Centenary.

Thanks to a mother lode of gold and silver, known as "The Comstock," Virginia City became one of the most important western towns in 19th-century Amer...

Niagara Fallsan ever-popular tourist destinationis a beautiful place to visit during any season.

What is the Milky Way? Our solar system, including the Earth, is part of a larger galaxy called the Milky Way.

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