Now a 33-year-old math and Spanish teacher in Silver Spring, MD, Lara has won the adult category in the PBS NewsHour's first science rap contest. He joins Raymond Zhuang, Timmy Beckmann and Emily Gao, ...

Last week, NewsHour announced the finalists for the PBS NewsHour's GZA-inspired science rap contest. The entries were terrific and ranged from rocks and space and dinosaurs to cell division and cancer ...

Middle school students in low-income neighborhoods are answering some epic questions in an unusual form — rap. Is Pluto a planet or a “dwarf” in space? And what was the Nobel Prize controversy ...

Science raps have this habit of being forgivably bad, in that this-isn’t-really-a-rap-but-we’ll-let-it-slide-because-you’re-scientists-and-you’re-clearly-trying sort of way. But this original piece ...

Jayda Neor and Kephra Shaw Meredith, seventh-graders from KIPP Bridge middle school in Oakland, Calif., perform a rap song about the discovery of DNA's structure in front of a green screen. How do you ...

Let’s remember that science is a human endeavor and it’s steeped in the context and sometimes messiness of the geo-socio-politico-economic backgrounds of the time and place of the work and discovery.

For hundreds of city high school students, rap is about Darwin, not just cash and flash. Sixteen-year-old Harlemite Jabari Johnson beat out 300 other New York-area high school students to win the ...

Back in 2002, the immeasurably talented MC of Blackalicious known as Gift of Gab wrote a lyrically athletic track called "Chemical Calisthenics." For those who could follow his rapid-fire style, it ...