Birds, bees, bears, dragonflies, salamanders, hemlocks, fungi. Scientific research in Great Smoky Mountains National Park addresses a wide swath of subjects. From Tennessee, North Carolina, South ...

Examples from three decades of research and development focused on adolescents’ STEM education and learning with and through emerging tech ...

Science is usually one of the more hands-on subjects in middle school: Students design research questions, draw diagrams, and conduct experiments. But the country’s 8th graders are less likely to do ...

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in water—centered on presumed inherent properties rather than external factors, ...

Public trust in science has eroded in part because of a growing perception that researchers selectively present data to fit predetermined agendas. The scientific method, at its core, is designed to ...