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One Arkansas man is leading the drive to get more school children interested in math and science.

There’s a reason that Univac wasn’t able just to become I.B.M., and there’s a reason I.B.M. couldn’t just become Microsoft and Microsoft couldn’t just become Google. We need smart people to invest in solutions that can help illuminate the path forward. At its best, that’s what philanthropy can do.

“For the high school graduate, this becomes a buyers’ market,”

In several states, including Arkansas, Kentucky and Missouri, public universities have tried to attract nonresidents by charging them lower tuition if they meet minimum scores on tests like the SAT or ACT. Such tactics can help a college raise its academic standing.

Lockheed, Intel Fund Engineering Courses; Creating a Work Force

Despite its enormous oil wealth, Saudi Arabia lacks world-class research universities. In the last few years, as the Persian Gulf nations have begun to worry about the eventual need to convert from an oil-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, they have started offering lavish inducements to American universities to bring their expertise to the region.

Students will explore in real time one of the planet’s most spectacular and most important biodiversity hotspots, California’s Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

"We may be contributing 1 percent to global warming. It’s largely due to solar activity, and there’s not a thing we can do about it," Colley said. "The polar caps on Mars are melting, and there’s not an SUV or smokestack in sight."

Fiery explosions, beautiful reactions, and hilarious music videos are great reasons to be excited about chemistry. Here are some of our favorites.

This is the third consecutive year the school has made the Top 10.