One of the peculiar things about teaching that I’ve realized over the last decade is that--no matter how long I’ve been in the classroom--I’m still going to come down with a bad case of stage fright ...

The UK needs more scientists. A report published earlier this year by the Social Market Foundation concluded that there is an annual shortfall of 40,000 science, technology, engineering and maths ...

Amid the fish tanks and black lab tables in Melanie Fields’ biology classroom, a video camera perched on the eyepiece of a microscope strikes a note of modernity. A cable transmits the camera’s view ...

Kids have always had a fascination with the other-worldly images produced by a scanning electron microscope (SEM): ants sitting on microchip picnic tables, salt crystals in gritty detail, the scales ...

Microscope kits may invoke a sweet nostalgia for many adults today, but future generations of children in science classes may enjoy an entirely different microscopy experience. A research team at ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... With federal and state education officials so intensely focused on math and literacy over the past few years, science teachers have often felt a little left ...