The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. A few nights ago, ...

From 1,700 middle-school students in 2015 to 45,000 in 2018, the Mi-STAR program brings more Michigan kids and their teachers active ways to apply science and engineering to solve real-life problems.

Over the course of a school year, elementary school children lose confidence that they can 'be scientists,' but remain more confident that they can 'do science.' Over the course of a school year, ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. One of the most notable things about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—the secretary of the Department of Health and Human ...

COVID-19 has prompted many people to learn more about viruses and other aspects of science. But do you know that the thick volume that is America’s national science education standards—the Next ...

We've just set the record for the hottest summer ever. But thanks to science—the physics and chemistry behind air conditioning—millions of Americans remained comfortable (and alive) amid the summer ...

At first glance, it’s a simple scene. Six adult bison and a calf mill around a stream. But Matt Davis invites me to look closer. We are at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, where Davis is an ...

Cong Lu has long been fascinated by how to use technology to make his job as a research scientist more efficient. But his latest project takes the idea to an extreme. Lu, who is a postdoctoral ...

In the summer of 2021, billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos skimmed the edge of space in their new Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic spacecrafts, officially launching an era of commercial ...

Past patrons both young and young at heart raved about the Science Museum of Virginia. Parents and children enjoyed the interactive elements throughout the space. Travelers visiting without kids ...