A class of fifth-graders from Green Acres Elementary in Lebanon, Ore., asked us to find out how pencil lead is made. That quest took us all the way back to the dawn of the universe and then all the ...

(Mass Appeal) – Today, March 30th, believe it or not, is National Pencil Day so we invited Maggie North, Curator of Art at the Springfield Museums, here to talk about how the medium of graphite and ...

In the early days of the space race, America's greatest scientific minds spent untold hours and countless dollars developing a ballpoint pen that would work in the weightlessness of space. The Soviets ...

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