Families with children, age 12 or younger, are invited to learn and create together at Naper Settlement’s new “Family STEM Nights.” This monthly program allows family and friends to participate in fun ...

This project began as a pile of machined parts and raw materials. Each component was carefully shaped, fitted, and aligned to ensure smooth motion. After assembling the piston, crankshaft, and ...

When your steam engine build requires multiple microscopes, including those of the scanning electron variety, you know you’re building something really, really tiny. All of the usual tiny superlatives ...

With a new academic year on the horizon, and educators and librarians on the lookout for fresh classroom and library materials, we asked publishers to share their insights into the STEM/STEAM category ...

When the Kinks' Ray Davies penned the tune 'Last of the Steam-Powered Trains,' the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist, the replacement ...

I recreated Hero's aeolipile machine to see if this very first steam engine could be put to work. Could the industrial revolution started 2000 years earlier?

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