STEM

The co-founders of VEX Robotics discuss the upcoming VEX Robotics World Championship coming to Dallas in 2021.

The Perot Museum TECH Truck is a mobile makerspace that inspires minds of all ages to bring out their inner scientist. Our team travels around North Texas to schools, libraries, hospitals, community events, colleges, festivals and pretty much anywhere an interactive truck can be hosted. The activities we facilitate focus on one or more of the eleme...

Teachers in Frisco ISD are taking their lesson plans on the road. Lessons that are part of the curriculum are being taught off-campus by guest teachers from FC Dallas.

Take a look inside the mineral exhibit Nature’s Art – The Mineral Beauty of China at Dallas’ Perot Museum of Nature and Science.

Europe and NASA’s Solar Orbiter has rocketed away on an unprecedented mission to capture the first pictures of the sun’s poles.

A major nonprofit Texas health system has collaborated with a Fort Worth medical school on the launch of a new physician residency program. The partnership, through Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center Fort Worth and the TCU and University of North Texas Health Science School of Medicine was announced Wednesday morning. The program is...

The University of North Texas is renaming a mathematics statistical laboratory in honor of a former student. Linda Truitt Creagh graduated from UNT in 1967, the first person to graduate from the university with a doctorate in chemistry. In 2019, Creagh donated $150,000 to UNT’s mathematics department after being inspired by the groundbreaking...

Not Visible to the Naked Eye: Inside a Senufo Helmet Mask, now on display on the Conservation Studio Landing through March 21, 2021.

In Cynthia Arceneaux’s 7th Grade science class at W.S. Permenter Middle School, experiments are part of the daily routine. They’re always cracking something open and seeing how it works. “If you’re excited, they will get excited, especially if it’s gross! I’m telling you, they love it,” said Arceneaux Recently, they ta...

Spacewalking astronauts had to make do with fewer lights and camera views from one helmet Wednesday while performing critical battery work outside the International Space Station. It was the second pairing of NASA’s Jessica Meir and Christina Koch outside the orbiting lab. Last October, they teamed up for the world’s first all-female sp...

At first glance, the word mineral invokes an image associated with mining, heavy machinery and digging for natural resources beneath the Earth’s surface. This evokes images associated with dark mines, muddy fields, and sweaty miners all digging for minerals to power our modern world. Minerals are also collected and displayed worldwide for their bea...

From the middle of the Obama administration to the midpoint of the Trump presidency, household income grew the most in tech and entertainment centers like Austin, Texas; Nashville, Tennessee; and large chunks of the West Coast.  Congressional districts that attract highly educated workers around areas like Denver and Charlotte, North Carolina, were...

Most people can easily recognize the contributions engineers make to society, but far too often engineers are incorrectly stereotyped as boring geeks.