(July 24, 2014: See the editor's note at the bottom of this page for an explanation of the story's new headline.) When 12-year-old Lauren Arrington heard about her sixth-grade science project, she ...

Cardinals Local Schools sixth grade science class participated in a Skittles Science Lab recently. Students used Skittles (their rock), water and a pipet (their precipitation), and a Petri dish (Earth ...

The national media couldn’t get enough of the inspiring story of a young Loxahatchee girl’s science fair project on invasive lionfish, billing it as “breakthrough” research that had stunned scientists ...

A sixth-grader's project for her school's science fair made waves among academics studying the invasive lionfish that infest many U.S. waters. These colorful fish, equipped with venomous spines, can ...

Thirteen-year-old Lauren Arrington has been busy on the media circuit these past few weeks, doing interview after interview about the sixth-grade science project that landed her in a published ...

JUPITER, Fla., July 22 (UPI) --Lauren Arrington is only 13 years old and just graduated from sixth grade. But she's keen on science, and her most recent experiment impressed even veteran scientists ...

Lauren Arrington, a 13-year-old scientist, poses with a tank of lionfish. Arrington recently presented her research on the fish, but marine biologist Zack Jud claims Arrington stole his findings.