Claire O'Neal

In 1918, the deadliest virus in human history struck worldwide with hardly any warning. A victim of the Spanish flu could wake up healthy and fall down dead the same day. In the United States, so many people fell ill that schools and churches closed. There werent enough healthy doctors and nurses to care for the sick, or enough healthy gravediggers to bury the dead. When U.S. troops joined World War I that year, they couldnt have imagined that more...

Discusses the ecology, history and importance of the Mississippi river.

From cars rusting to stomachs digesting, chemical reactions make things happen. These easy and fun projects on chemistry and chemical reactions will help you think like a chemist as you burn oxygen in air, move microscopic metals through solution, make your own plastic, and much more.