A fun, 12-question quiz that tests your knowledge of how learned material is stored and recalled.

If students think they’ve mastered something, they have little reason to make an effort. These strategies help them see the limits of their knowledge.

Like elite athletes and musicians, even outstanding teachers have room to grow.

From fractions and decimals to distance and time, the humble-but-versatile number line can deepen students’ understanding of key mathematical concepts.

New research looks at how movement-based games like Simon Says and Red Light, Green Light can improve a young student’s self regulation skills.

These strategies help connect movements to phonics instruction, giving kids another way to absorb the crucial information.

Successful group work in middle and high school requires thoughtful design. These strategies help teachers structure collaboration so every student contributes—and learns.

Visual activities like mapping, sketching, sculpting, and writing comic strips can help students clarify ideas, strengthen drafts, and deepen literary analysis.

Threading prior knowledge into new material makes for more durable learning. Here are 12 research-backed, teacher-tested strategies to help kids unpack what they already know.

When common math errors are examined, discussed, and revised, they can deepen students’ learning.

The moss Physcomitrium patens joins tardigrades and thale-cress as a species that has survived in space

Researchers simulated the effects that different web decorations had on vibrations, adding fresh insight to a decades-old debate about the function of these structures

Wyoming’s “dinosaur mummies,” once thought to preserve fossilized flesh, are actually detailed clay molds formed by microbes as the creatures decayed

Disease-causing bacteria that have been recently discovered in the teeth of Napoleonic soldiers may have spurred the massive infantry’s demise during its retreat from Russia

Wood vaulting, a simple, low-tech approach to storing carbon, has the potential to remove 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year—and some companies are already trying it

Researchers tested 12 “magic mushroom” edibles. None contained psilocybin, but most contained undisclosed ingredients, including synthetic drugs whose safety hasn’t been tested in humans

Speed and flexibility have made mRNA a blockbuster technology

Proposed amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act would cut down protections to whales, dolphins, polar bears and other species

A devastating bacterium has decimated populations of sunflower sea stars, predators that play a crucial role in their environment

Tsunami warnings and advisories were issues around the Pacific Ocean after a magnitude-8.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia, the largest earthquake since the 2011 Japan earthquake and resulti...

Here’s how the new tetrahedron-based design for the “Trionda” soccer ball may affect next year’s big game

A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants—but it’s likely not enough.

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon called true polar wander

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The long-term survival of a patient with neuroblastoma suggests the personalized cancer treatment may work for solid tumors, not just blood cancers.

Someday, technology might be able to help people better hold onto memories or forget bad ones.

Carl Zimmer’s Air-Borne recounts centuries of aerobiology’s greatest moments and mistakes.

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world th...

COVID-era telehealth laws made health care more accessible for rural patients, but telehealth might not be as easy to access next year.

Noteworthy findings include jumbo black hole jets, an ultrapetite frog, ancient asteroid remnants and more.

A new study shows a steep drop in cervical cancer deaths among the first cohort of women who were eligible for the HPV vaccine.

BLOOM is the first clinic in the Bay Area to provide Black families with baby and toddler care from health care workers who understand the social, cultural and racial challenges that those families…