The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this experiment on forming brass and bronze from pennies. Students will use post and pre-1983 pennies to create bronze and brass alloys. The class...

This is an article published on March 23, 2008. It describes that recent research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has demonstrated that thin films made of "metamaterials"--manmade composites...

This animation, created by Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), "illustrates the crystal growth of silicon using a seed crystal (or unit cell) positioned to the (100) plane. The silicon crystal grows into...

This course, taught by Prof. Judson Harward and Prof. Steven Lerman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teaches fundamental software development and computational methods for engineering, scientific and...

The name says it all. At the link above, readers will find 150 science experiments, allowing for enough STEM discoveries to last through spring. These experiments are organized into several categories, including Water...