AI tutors are often held up as an ideal, but prioritizing individualized teaching can detract from the benefits of learning in social environments.

It’s well established that children have an easier time learning second languages. In recent years, scientists have studied ...

Trevor Noah joined a 5th grade computer science class in Bellevue for Code.org’s Hour of AI, a Microsoft-supported initiative ...

Bill Nye turns 70 on November 27, 2025, and that may be a shock to us ’90s kids who remember the excitement of the TV being wheeled into the classroom and the catchy theme song playing, with all of us ...

Researchers uncovered how estrogen subtly reshapes learning by strengthening dopamine reward signals in the brain. Rats learned faster when estrogen levels were high and struggled when the hormone’s ...

Crack open a chunk of white quartz from a gold mine and you might see bright metal streaks inside. For more than a century, geologists looked at scenes like that and said, “Gold got here in hot water.

A President Trump-ordered report on the scientific basis for providing “gender-affirming care” to kids — which found almost no medical evidence to support hormone therapy and other treatments for ...

Sensible people already know that medicalizing children in the name of so-called “gender-affirming care” is not only experimental, it’s barbaric. Now, a peer-reviewed study, commissioned by the ...

Almost 40,000 years ago, a juvenile woolly mammoth died in modern-day Siberia. Today, its long-frozen remains have yielded the oldest sequences of RNA—messenger molecules that carry out genetic ...