High school should start later than 7:30
Evidence is overwhelming that teens need to sleep to a comfortable time, which makes starting high school before 8:30 problematic.
STEM
Gene-editing tool shows promise for vision disorder
CRISPR may allow researchers to deactivate a master switch gene in DNA to prevent the worsening of a blindness-causing condition
Pollution in the Chesapeake Bay is 200 years old
Pollution, resulting in high nitrogen levels in the Chesapeake Bay estuary in Maryland, did not start building after World War II but about a hundred years earlier.
Jupiter in opposition today. Wow!
The world's beauty is joined by extraterrestrial beauty, and since Jupiter is now closer to Earth than it has been in a year, NASA took some pics.
Hillcrest applies quadratic equation to bottle rockets
Students at a suburban IL high school calculated how high launches took their bottle rockets during an outdoor class earlier this month.
Algebra 1 PARCC: graphing inequalities
Graphing the solution to a system of linear inequalities is likely to come up on the PARCC test in algebra 1. Are you ready?
Company sued for expanding school robo-texts
Technology has made it easy for schools to notify parents in an emergency by robocall or robo-text. But has it gone too far?
Breakthrough might save the Great Barrier Reef
Starfish feed on coral & can wipe out big sections of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. But scientists are figuring out ways to solve that.
A badger buries a cow in Utah, all by itself
We know a little more about how scavengers cache their food supply in the Utah desert, thanks to some biologists at the University of Utah.
How important is the ‘GPS’ in your brain?
The hippocampus has long been known to be associated in the brain with our sense of direction or mapping the environments we navigate.