But a 6th grader’s science fair project proves otherwise. "Scientists were doing plenty of tests on them, but they just always assumed they were in the ocean," 13-year-old Lauren Arrington told NPR.

By showing that lionfish can live in fresh water, 12 year-old Lauren Arrington has alerted ecologists to the potential for these fish to migrate upstream ...

Sparta Meadowview Middle School sixth-grader Kaeli Rank, right, demonstrates how liquids interact while presenting her science fair project on spherification, the process where cooks uses chemical ...

Shane Satterlee, a Litchfield Middle school sixth grade social studies and science teacher, asked his students to formulate a question before Christmas break and answer it using the scientific ...

Students at MMI Preparatory School were recently honored for their achievements in the sixth-grade Science Fair. The projects were graded on the criteria of scientific thought, experimental ...

Top projects will be promoted to compete at the 87th Annual Minnesota Science and Engineering Fair March 28 at the State Fair Grounds in St. Paul.

Editor's note on July 24: The original headline on this page was "Sixth-Grader's Science Fair Finding Shocks Ecologists." We've changed the headline to better reflect the effect Lauren's project ...

After independent judging, 26 of the sixth-grade entries received awards for outstanding achievement. Nine of the 26 were selected to compete in the county Science Fair in February.

Each year, MMI’s sixth grade students participate in the science fair, where projects are judged by members of the Science National Honor Society, faculty members, and Pennsylvania Junior ...