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What does this gizmo do? We've given students a diagram of what the interior of this mechanism contains and asked them to try to decide what its purpose...

How many pieces does each person get when $10 is supposed to feed two people? Which would you buy and how much is each piece of your choice?...

At about 10:00 am, April 15th, April's calf was born. Everyone will be talking about it and smiling constantly. Here's some fun math stuff to bring with you...

We celebrate Patriots' Day to commemorate the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the battles of Lexington and Concord. Students learn more about the difficulties of the Revolutionary...

A new, fast-growing ice crack is forcing the Halley VI British research station in Antarctica (shown above) to be moved. Fear of a huge break-off from the ice...

Willow at Baltimore, MD Zoo Willow weighed 125 pounds at birth and was 6 feet 1 inch tall. She will grow to her adult height of around 14...

In Leslie's family it is traditional to eat latkes (Yiddish for little potato pancakes) at this time of year. They are fried in a lot of oil and...

New York Times photo - Credit Darren Staples/Reuters They changed it. That is so not fair ... or is it? You can check out a video news story...

Nematodes Grubs are killing my grass. I don't want to put poison into the ground. What can I do? There are tiny roundworms called beneficial nematodes. They can...

Who knew that creams for your face could be so expensive! I'm going to have to rethink what to buy for my mom. Which of these high priced...

I'm trying to be more savy about wasting our resources. I have really old fashioned toilets and I'm trying to figure out if I should invest in saving...

David Price, a 30-year old pitcher from Toronto's Blue Jays, was hired with a 7 year contract to be the Red Sox's new ace pitcher for $217 million...