THE increase in primary school Mathematics teaching time from next year is a step towards arresting declining global scores (see infobox), but educators say changing pupils' attitudes towards the ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

One question in computer science has stood above the rest for decades, resisting every attempt to settle it despite its ...

In January middle school and high school students at more than 200 host sites across the U.S. and parts of Canada competed in ...

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language ...

Quantum computers could solve certain problems that would take traditional classical computers an impractically long time to ...

Creative problem solving and human-centered design remain at the heart of computer science as AI handles the repetitive tasks ...

For as long as scientists have been trying to understand the behavior of the electrically charged fourth state of matter ...

Kiley Pappas, a fifth-grader at Quail Run Elementary School, likes to jump off things. Unfortunately, jumping off swings and boxes can be both problematic and painful. Kiley has broken both her arm ...

When solving a puzzle, the answer could lie in your dreams. In a study of lucid dreamers, playing soundtracks linked with unsolved puzzles helped the sleepers solve the problems the next day, ...

Decades of research has shown promise for using microbiome science to solve several problems facing agriculture, but these findings have not yet been translated to practical recommendations for ...