Maia Dua, Winner of Marvel’s STEM Challenge for Girls, Shows Off Her “Seeing...
Maia Dua of River City High School in West Sacramento, CA has won the top prize in Marvel Studio’s Girls Reforming the Future Challenge, a contest encouraging girls aged 15-18 to submit science, tech,...
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Girls Beat Boys in First National Test in Technology and Engineering
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a test given to eighth grade students in public and private schools nationwide every two years to test their proficiency in various subjects...
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Things We Saw Today: Your Favorite Action Stars, Now With Selfie Sticks...
Somewhere, there is an alternate universe where what defines a badass action star is not violence, or their weapons, but their ability to take a quality self-portrait on their phones mid-battle. Check...
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Evidence That Comets Brought Life to Earth Found on Rosetta’s Comet - In...
Rosetta probe, via Elenarts/Shutterstock Researchers at the University of Bern recently published a study which revealed that prebiotic chemicals, glycerine and phosphorus, were discovered in the...
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Deep-sea Ecologist Rewatches seaQuest DSV: Episodes 11, 12 & 13 - The future...
After a hiatus, we’re back with three episodes in just one post! Don’t say I never did anything for you. Episode 11: The Regulator. We are 11 episodes into the first season of seaQuest DSV, and The...
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Deep Sea Ecologist Rewatches SeaQuest DSV: Episodes 14, 15 and 16 - Magma...
Another short hiatus, another trio of reviews! Let’s get to it. Episode 14: “Better Than Martians.” In the seaQuest universe, we went to Mars. That’s not really outside the realm of possibility. We...
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Things We Saw Today: Stranger Things Finally Gets the Funko Treatment
Funko debuted their Stranger Things figures today and they’re adorably strange! It includes all the main characters, with a few different versions of Eleven, the Demogorgon, and Will. They’re...
View Article21st Century Fox Tries to Close the STEM Gap, Holds Contest to Find Next...
21st Century Fox wants to do its part in bringing more women to STEM. In honor of the film Hidden Figures, which centers on the efforts of three black female mathematicians during the Space Race in...
View Article[VIDEO] New York Toy Fair: DC Super Hero Girls Action Figures, Science Demos...
This year’s New York Toy Fair featured plenty of great toys. From science experiments to board games to stop-motion animation, there seemed to be something for everyone. Here are some of my favorites:...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Whitesplains Diversity to Black College Students in North...
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has been on a tour of all 50 U.S. states to reach out to folks outside of Silicon Valley and learn a little more about what their lives are like —and how they feel about...
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Maryam Mirzakhani, the First Woman Honored with The Fields Medal, Has Died at...
Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman and first Iranian to be awarded the Fields Medal, has passed away at the age of 40 from breast cancer. The Fields Medal is one of the most prestigious awards in...
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Afghanistan’s All-Girl Robotics Team Won a Silver Medal at Their Competition
After being denied their visas twice, a six-girl robotics team from Afghanistan finally made it to the FIRST Global Challenge in Washington, D.C. There, the girls demonstrated their robot in...
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Awesome! Girl Scouts Just Added 23 New STEM Badges
Plenty of studies have shown that girls begin to feel excluded from STEM fields at a young age. From the overwhelmingly male portrayals in film and television to the gender-based marketing of...
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New Mexico Tried to Water Down Its Science Standards, but Parents and...
The New Mexico Public Education Department recently proposed a much-needed change to the statewide science education standards, which were initially adopted in 2003 and last updated in 2009. The new...
View ArticleJames Damore Is Suing Google for Discriminating Against White Dudes & the...
James Damore, the guy who was fired from Google after writing a 10-page screed accusing the company of discriminating against conservative white men, has filed a lawsuit against his previous employers...
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In Honor of Black Panther, Disney Donates $1 Million to Open STEM Centers for...
The Walt Disney Company announced that they will donate a one-time grant of $1 million to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), in order to help with their STEM programs for young people. BGCA...
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Ivanka Trump Cosplayed as a Vape Juice Scientist as If That’s Something the...
It’s Infrastructure Week in Washington again, which, in political terms, means Donald Trump tweets about “WITCH HUNTS” while his daughter Ivanka gives the world new meme material. If there’s something...
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Easy at Home Science Experiments for Kids (And Parents!)
With school out for summer (hopefully not forever), kids and parents are looking for things to fill the time that might also be somewhat educational. Luckily, the materials for some fun and...
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Scientists and Academics Are Going on Strike Against Systemic Racism in...
After two weeks of protests and campaigning, the call to fight against systemic racism shows no signs of slowing down. More voices are joining the chorus of anti-racism, and people in positions of...
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SvahaUSA Is Turning the New James Webb Telescope Images Into...
We’ve been covering Svaha USA since they got started in 2015 with a Kickstarter that raised $30,000; it all started when founder Jaya Iyer wanted to make a line of gender-neutral STEAM kids’ apparel...
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