On a bright, sunny day, a group of first-graders eagerly begins a science investigation called “Shadow Town.” The teacher gathers them in a circle and asks, “What causes shadows?” It’s a good question ...

The pathway Helena Ochoa followed to her current job as a scientist at Pfizer started in a learning lab at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. Ochoa first came to Fred Hutch on a high school field trip with her ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...

The research referenced in this article was supported by the National Science Foundation's Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Program Award #2415882 and the Heising-Simons Foundation Award ...

Around the world, many teachers still believe longstanding—but long-debunked—myths about learning and cognition. A study published this month in the journal Trends in Neuroscience and Education finds ...