It is cowabunga time! Pupils read an article about the NASA LISA mission on gravitational waves and conduct additional research on them. The class participates in a science bowl type competition about gravitational waves. Panels of four...

Keep within a water budget. Learners find out that less than 2.5% of Earth's water is available to drink—and that there is a fixed amount of water. Scholars read an interesting article comparing the available water to a game of Monopoly...

Calculate the speed of the International Space Station. By reading the article, pupils learn about the concept of orbits. Scholars work through a formula to determine how fast the International Space Station is traveling to stay in...

This article explains some of the science behind baseball. Also includes a list of vocabulary words from the article.

This article explains the science of concussions, including the damage they can do to the brain and symptoms of concussion. The article also describes the technology that scientists are using to detect concussion and how helmets are now...

Article reports on how the surface of the Earth changes over time. Includes a list of vocabulary words from the article.

Article reports on a new study that claims that the energy released from asteroid collisions may have sparked life on Earth. Includes a list of key vocabulary.

This article explains how too much time indoors as children may be leading to vision problems in young people, especially myopia. Article includes a vocabulary list and a printable word search.

Article reports on the recent discovery of Lythronax argestes, an ancestor to the Tyrannosaurus rex. Includes a list of vocabulary words.

Article reports on the increasing size of ocean animals over the millenia. Includes a list of key vocabulary.

Article reports on a recent study that found that babies that are exposed to peanuts are less likely to develop peanut allergies. Includes a list of key vocabulary.

Article reports on the decreasing amounts of sleep being had by teens and tweens and its effects. Includes a list of key vocabulary.

This article examines how the commercialization of scientific discoveries leads to conflict between proprietary rights to intellectual property, trade secrecy, and the maintenance of scientific norms. The first two inhibit the...

Article reports on a report issues by Congress that finds that e-cigarette manufacturers are aggressively marketing their products to teenagers. Includes a list of vocabularly words.

Article reports on how electric eels use bursts of electricity to control the movements of their prey. Includes a list of key vocabulary and a video.

Article reports on the negative ways in which loneliness can impact health. Includes a vocabulary list.

Article reports on the debut of the world's most accurate atomic clock. Includes a vocabulary list.

Discusses the evolution of ideas about the cosmos, from the Magic Cosmology of the Neolithic age to the stage of Mythical Cosmology, to the Geometric Cosmology of the ancient Greeks. The third stage advocated a rational approach to...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee has been working on a way to cut back expenses on powerful magnets used in various objects we use every day like computers and cars. Science News for Students probes into the investigation's...

In this article, the contributions of the Islamic world to our knowledge of medicine are discussed.

Learn about the influence of the Arab and Islamic world in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and technology in this article.

Article describing the scientific evolution of theories about the ice ages and glaciation. The international efforts of scientists are noted, as well as the influence of societal mores on how long it would generally take for new ideas to...

Article reports on the discovery of a supermassive object 90 million light-years from Earth that may be an orphan black hole.

Article describing research done by scientists in their quest to understand the origins of life. Questions are posed throughout about the nature of scientific research.