Great Neck's Cynthia Zhang and Massapequa's Gia Providente earned the 2025 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes.

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

The Lab Next Door is a monthly column that highlights the scientists living, working and experimenting in the community.

PERRYSBURG, Ohio — Learning in the field was definitely the goal for two northwest Ohio science teachers who went on a field trip thousands of miles away. Their adventure could help save the iconic ...

Linda Auld is widely known as the "NOLA Bug Lady," as she has raised 147 species of butterflies and moths — photographing and studying the life cycles of these insects. For more than 30 years, she has ...

Raising monarch butterflies indoors is a bad idea Attention, all who have been raising monarch butterflies indoors — and I know there are lots of you — current research concludes that hatchi… ...

U.S. wildlife officials announced a decision in December to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies after years of warnings from environmentalists that populations are shrinking and the ...

The monarch butterfly is Illinois' state insect and has held that distinction for 50 years — having been suggested for the honor by third grade classes in Decatur in 1975. But the butterfly is also in ...

Fishing duo Cole & Jay raise hundreds of monarch butterflies from start to finish.

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A group of UA Little Rock nursing students helped release about 30 monarch butterflies during a surprise classroom activity designed to inspire and educate the future nurses. DeeDee Moline, assistant ...