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 ...

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 ...

When you think of school science fair projects, you might think of baking soda volcanoes or Styrofoam models of the planets. More to the point, that’s what a lot of students think of – and ...

Lauren Arrington's sixth-grade research project is cited in a science journal. (July 24, 2014: See the editor's note at the bottom of this page for an explanation of the story's new headline.) ...

Zachary Naugle, Jared Santana and Marissa Yamulla placed in the top three during MMI Preparatory School’s sixth grade science fair held Feb. 11 in the school cafeteria. Yamulla captured first… ...

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 ...

The 2014 Central New York Science & Engineering Fair drew hundreds of students Sunday at the SRC Arena at Onondaga Community College.

Sixth-grader Stephen Blasko was the overall winner in this year’s science fair at Southside Christian School Here are all of the winners by grade: Eighth grade, earth science – first place ...

The Windy City Science Fair in Chicago on May 4 will bring together enterprising scientists to show off their experiments. No baking soda volcanoes ... “I’m 41 and my science fair project ...

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 ...