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State and local officials plan to test dozens of drinking water wells around Piedmont Triad International Airport next month.

The Guilford County School system plans to ask lawmakers for help with lead testing in their buildings.

Guilford County School officials have a new plan to address concerns over high levels of lead found in drinking water at some buildings.

Beginning next month, a team of more than 20 university researchers from across the state will begin sampling municipal water and air samples for potentially toxic compounds. It's pa

North Carolina and federal health officials want to test whether neighbors of a chemical company are carrying little-understood industrial compounds in their bodies.

What has changed — and what hasn't — since President Obama called for a new approach amid a national debate over how much time students spend preparing for, and taking, standardized tests.

Apes' intelligence tests vary so much from kids' that comparative results may be invalid. Anthropologist Barbara J. King explores new insights from psychology.

It can be a lot of fun taking those back-of-the-magazine personality tests. But tests may be less fun when they are used by employers to make big life decisions on hiring and job performance.

Despite the attention to lead in water, the biggest health risk to children is still from lead paint. The city of Baltimore banned lead paint way back in 1950, but children continue to be poisoned.