For more than three decades, Sandy Wardell has taught her students with the philosophy that biology education should go beyond lectures and tests by incorporating inquiry and hands-on labs, case studies and technology-based activities.

Schoolchildren in the UK studying science and technology subjects like maths, physics and chemistry find it much harder to achieve the top exam grades than candidates of similar ability studying subjects like media studies and psychology, according to a n

A student from Lake Forest High School and one from Deerfield High School recently returned from the Bahamas, where they spent a week experiencing first-hand marine biology as part of a Shedd Aquarium's program. Logan Schwarzman and John Clark, soon-to-b

Sixty-three feet below the ocean's surface, the science teacher was giving his morning lesson. "Hi, and welcome to Aquarius for our third and final broadcast from this mission," Mark Tohulka told his third-period marine biology students, watching via w

A team of scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), a research institute of the Asian city-state's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and the University of California at San Francisco have developed a pharmacological appro