STEM Documents

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.

Is a college education necessary to make one's way in the world?  Would a college education help a person to get a better job?  These issues...

When members of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) issued their findings on the disaster's cause, those findings coincided with the conc...

A short biography of James Watt, the Scottish inventor whose brilliance in improving the steam engine helped to change the world.

This image depicts the cover of Michael Crichton's famous book, Jurassic Park.  It is this book on which the film "Jurassic Park" is based.

This image depicts the box cover of "Jurassic Park," a film by Steven Spielberg.

Bookcover image of K-19 the Widowmaker: The Secret Story of The Soviet Nuclear Submarine, by Peter Huchthausen.

This map, based on Google Earth, depicts the location of Stageira.  The ancient town, now mostly in ruins, was the birthplace of Aristotle - the ...

This image depicts the back-cover of Lucy Pringle's book on Crop Circles:  The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times. Ms. Pringle is Britain's top in...

When mummified remains are found in peat bogs, mountain summits and other places, sometimes facial features are preserved - sometimes they are not.&nb...

Why does the Orbiter perform strange maneuvers and banks to slow it down before landing? Other than its rocket-propulsion system, which the Shuttle...

Benjamin Franklin writes an article for the January 1750 issue of "Gentlemens Magazine," published in London. It is the first-known publication discus...

This newspaper article ran about a few days after the Roswell crash.  The article reported that the Army had indeed recovered a flying disc, desp...

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