We can often get tripped up when we equate facts and opinions. This technique allows us to separate what we know and what we ...

Elementary teachers can create authentic contexts for students to practice critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

A famed physicist’s scribbles reveal the answer to a quintessential dilemma: When dining out, is it better to stick with an old favorite, or try something new? Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard ...

Electrification – the process of making transportation and building heating reliant on the electric grid rather than fossil fuels – is key to decarbonization. This is reflected in many state ...

A study published in the journal Informs Journal on Computing has an intriguing premise: How could we optimize a route through the solar system, if we wanted to stop at a large number of asteroids ...

How good is your company at problem solving? Probably quite good, if your managers are like those at the companies I’ve studied. What they struggle with, it turns out, is not solving problems but ...

Abstract: We study the problem of building text classifiers using positive and unlabeled examples. The key feature of this problem is that there is no negative example for learning. Recently, a few ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

I’m a new principal investigator (PI) with my own laboratory at a prestigious university. The PhD students who make it into our programme have already achieved a lot academically. But, sometimes, that ...

Another day, another Google AI model. Google has really been pumping out new AI tools lately, having just released Gemini 3 in November. Today, it’s bumping the flagship model to version 3.1. The new ...

Creative inventions and ideas that show next-level thinking. Terror charge filed in Jan. 6 case I asked 3 restaurant pros to name the most annoying thing diners do ...