Gingrich campaigns in Dayton, Cincinnati

By Lynn Hulsey and Eric Schwartzberg DAYTON - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich spent nearly 20 minutes of his speech in Dayton Tuesday on a history lesson about the Wright Brothers invention of the airplane and then said they would...

Gingrich delivers history lesson on Dayton campaign stop

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich spent nearly 20 minutes of his speech in Dayton on Tuesday delivering a history lesson about the Wright brothers invention of the airplane and then said they would not have succeed if government “bureaucrats” had been involved. But Gingrich also praised inventions that came from NASA, the government’s space program, and said his Republican ...

Background on the Exhibits, Students and Competitions at the White House Science Fair

Release Time:  For Immediate Release Background on the Exhibits, Students and Competitions at the White House Science Fair The second White House Science Fair celebrates over 100 students from over 45 states, representing over 40 different competitions and organizations that work with students and inspire them to excel in STEM. A subset of the students being honored today will have the added ...

Losing Baggage

You could say it was prescient that Pam Houston began writing her latest book on an airplane. But then, the award-winning short-story writer and novelist often writes on airplanes—and when she started writing these vignettes she had no idea they’d morph into a novel.

BOOK REVIEW: 'An Uncertain Place'

AN UNCERTAIN PLACE By Fred Vargas Penguin, $15 416 pages THE IMPOSSIBLE DEAD By Ian Rankin Reagan Arthur Books, $25.99, 400 pages There is the matter of a man who ate his way through a wardrobe and another who chewed through a small airplane. And there is the alarming question ...

Taking a look at Irvine’s young inventors

Take a bowl of liquid soap, add a pinwheel accessorized with small round attachments and blow. This invention, which makes bubbles, is the creation of a local elementary school student vying to win a prize in this year's annual Astounding Inventions...