Science

Using pictures to help middle school students visualize science terms could be the key to boosting vocabulary for all students, including those with learning disabilities who struggle with reading and writing.

In business, marketing and social work, financial incentives are often used to increase people’s motivation, guide their behavior and achieve lasting success. However, the latter is not always the case, as a recent study in Royal Society Open Science by…

Liberals and conservatives both oppose censorship of children’s literature—unless the writing offends their own ideology, new Cornell research finds.

When Sean Grisdale analyzed some 385,000 eviction filings in Toronto and its surrounding areas, he discovered a troubling trend—tenants increasingly faced “no-fault” evictions when they rented from landlords who treated properties as investments.

Paying tribute to the ‘Star Trek’ creator’s posthumous space adventure that still resonates with fans today.

Empathy is not just a “nice-to-have” soft skill—it is a foundation of how children and adults regulate emotions, build friendships and learn from one another.

At a Bristol social club, a psychic medium scans the room, inviting the spirit world into a space more often used for drinking and darts. The medium is talking to a small audience, mostly women.

Most pupils who go through the lengthy process of being identified with dyslexia, autism or another condition end up spending the bulk of their time supported not by a trained specialist teacher but by a teaching assistant.

Since 2022, American companies, consumers, and even the United Nations have used large language models—artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT that are trained to create text that reads like human-generated writing. In a study published in the journal Patterns,…

How Ridley Scott’s third sci-fi masterpiece proved there is life on Mars after all, by telling a deeply human, and oddly familiar story.