A couple of years ago, five faculty members at Harvard University published an intriguing study. They had run an experiment in an introductory undergraduate physics course to figure out why active ...

Carl Bergstrom is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle and the co-author of an open online course about how to learn and thrive in a ChatGPT world. Time is a precious ...

Detectives and scientists have a lot in common. Both collect data, develop hypotheses and test their assumptions. And both pursue evidence in the hope of a definitive finding. Science was key to the ...

The new moon on February 17 marks the start of the Lunar New Year, which is celebrated in many Southeast and East Asian countries. According to the Chinese zodiac, it’s also the start of the Year of ...

Have you ever noticed how certain lines from a textbook linger in your mind long after you’ve shut it, while others vanish almost immediately? Not because they were harder. Not because you were ...