Five years ago, as local newsrooms shrunk and specialty reporters became fewer, a nonpartisan, free service launched to help those who remained. SciLine, based at the American Association for the ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Area seventh-grade girls will get a crash course in making milk out of plastic, isolating DNA and becoming a medical detective among more at Washburn’s Women in Science Day.

They spent the first week of summer vacation playing with Slinkys and toy cars. Elementary school teachers, that is. The teachers went to class at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on the receiving ...