Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...

One of my closest friends is a neuroscientist, investigating how brain cells develop and how they search for and choose other brain cells to connect with. Her research can sound intimidating, but when ...

Amid the rise of the so-called “Make America Healthy Again” movement, right-wing media figures have employed a variety of ...

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.” Inside Manu Prakash are two ...

"God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs." When Jeff Goldblum said those words in the original "Jurassic Park" film, he summarized well ...

One of the most memorable illustrations of scientific wonder is Joseph Wright of Derby’s extravagantly titled painting “A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery, in Which a Lamp is Put in Place ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new tomb was discovered at Petra’s Khazneh, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. The tomb’s discovery, as revealed on Discovery Channel’s ...

Sarah Goodwin is the executive director of the Science Communication Lab (SCL), a nonprofit that produces short and feature-length documentary films to demystify the nature and process of science and ...