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, ...

Ernesto Lara’s video, “Elevation and Boiling Point,” has won first prize in the adult category for the NewsHour’s science rap contest. “Young people whose voices have been silenced are forever in ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Drop that science." — Ol' Dirty Bastard With each passing year, hip-hop becomes a little more omnipresent in popular culture. Had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...