NEW YORK (AP) Due to climate change, the worlds oceans are getting warmer, rising higher, losing oxygen and becoming more acidic at an ever-faster pace and melting even more ice and snow, a grim…
The Trump administration has announced new regulations that will change how scientists test the safety of chemicals. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has ordered a total ban starting in 15 years of animal testing on products…
Lake Johnson could have been an engineer, until he decided that he really didnt like college chemistry. It was really hard. I thought, I dont like this anymore, he said. So he changed his major…
Theres just something thrilling about traveling at high speeds. Throughout history people have always pushed themselves to go faster, whether on foot, on horseback, on a boat or on a bicycle. Nearly every weekend, todays…
Dear editor, Earlier this summer, Allen Community College offered its sixth year of a science-themed summer camp for children ranging from kindergarten through seventh grade, hosting over 65 children throughout the week exploring the environmental…
With a quick swoop of a net, Cooper Peters of Humboldt trapped a dragonfly. ?Caught him,? Peters announced. ?Good job,? Lilly Fernandez replied. ?Do not get him angry.? ?Well, when they get caught, they?re pretty…
A teenager wakes up, gets ready for school. Slips a smartphone into her pocket on the way out the door. Her day may well include some biology or chemistry, history, algebra, English and Spanish. It…
MORAN ? Stephen Smith, science instructor at Marmaton Valley High School, has been named a recipient of the 2019 Wolfe Family Teaching Award from the University of Kansas. Smith, who has taught at Marmaton Valley…
WASHINGTON (AP) Scientists this morning revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, depicting a fiery orange and black ring of gravity-twisted light swirling around the edges of the abyss. Assembling data…
This year?s winter has been worse than recent ones. Are you worrying about heating bills? When the outside temperature falls below freezing, keeping your house warm and cozy costs money. As you know, hot summer days…