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Celebrate 15 Years of the SciTech Festival

The amazing Arizona SciTech Festival turns a decade-and-a-half this season and offers free STEM fun for everyone! This celebration of

Team USA earned more medals in this year’s Milan Cortina Olympics than in any previous Winter Games, bringing home 33

A Laveen teen recently made the news. But his story started almost a decade ago. Living in Wisconsin, Trent Cason

How does a cow scratch its itch? And no, this isn’t the start of a joke! For Veronika the cow,

A 3-year-old boy has become the youngest chess player to be ranked among other players around the world. Yes, you

The park honors the contributions and sacrifices of civilians who helped with the war efforts here during World War II.

A decades-old debate about whether a small tyrannosaur Nanotyrannus was its own species or simply a growing, teenage Tyrannosaurus rex

SAN DIEGO, CA—With around 4 million visitors a year, the world-famous San Diego Zoo lost its oldest resident. Gramma the

St. Mary’s Food Bank, which began in Phoenix in 1967 as the first food bank ever, provides enough food each

A large asteroid came within 300 miles of hitting Earth last month…and scientists only realized it after the asteroid had