Imagine you are a student, excited to leave school, and you hear your teacher exclaim, “Do pages 41 through 44 for homework!” You groan, realizing you have to walk back to get your math book. This time, hopefully, you won’t spend hours at the table doing it.
I’m a first-generation Muslim American with immigrant parents: My dad was born in Damascus, Syria, and my mom was born in Milan, Italy. Growing up with immigrant parents is hard enough, since you practice a different religion and have different values than everyone around you.
IndyKids reporters interviewed Amy Zimmer, the bureau chief for Chalkbeat New York, back in the fall of 2024 about her career in education reporting.
Freshwater is all around us. We drink freshwater and use it every day. But what if it is under threat?
This park is not like others. Dos Rios is a park that’s supposed to flood, because it is a natural floodplain.
Life on Earth is interconnected. Plants and animals depend on each other, as well as on the soil and bodies of water near them, whether creeks, rivers, streams, or oceans. All of the living things and their natural environments are part of an ecosystem. According to Lucy Andrews, a Ph.D. student in the Department of …
The technology we use has an impact on the environment, and that impact is increasing with artificial intelligence (AI). In Google’s 2024 environmental report, the company reported that their data centers consumed 6.1 billion gallons of water, which is a 17% increase from the previous year. Google attributes this increase to “the expansion of AI …
You may have heard about scientists James Watson and Francis Crick, who first discovered the shape of DNA, but have you heard of Rosalind Franklin?
