This rap about the math concept known as the Fibonacci Sequence, is by Elissa Malcolm. Last week, we announced the finalists for the PBS NewsHour’s Gza-inspired science rap contest. The entries were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Check out this deft rap about life on other planets by Jonathan Chase, a.k.a. Oort Kuiper (yes, that Oort and that Kuiper). The delivery is subdued and literate, like Massive Attack-era Tricky, and ...