(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 ...

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 ...