Science has given us so much. We ultimately owe speedy transportation, enthralling entertainment, life-saving advances, full bellies, and longer, healthier lives to individuals who asked questions, ...

I believe our relationship to science education is overwhelmingly transactional. We sit in a chair, have information presented, imprint it in the old noggin and then are tested on how well we’ve ...

Here at 13.7, one of the things we try to do is to spark discussion and reflection on some perennial questions, be they related to pressing issues such as global warming and the energy crisis or to ...

Perhaps because in the popular imagination meaning is mysterious and hard. We picture wise sages cloistered in remote caves meditating on the deepest questions of the universe, or larger than life ...

There is little agreement among administrators on what computer science is, how it should be taught, and what kind of requirement it should fulfill. That’s the upshot of a recent survey of 500 high ...

Rethinking values based on science and traditional wisdom Indigenous, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions have held for millennia that all life is interconnected. Modern science has now validated their ...

See the most-read stories in Science this hour » “The idea that there is essentially no relation between sound and meaning has [existed for] over 100 years now,” said lead author Damian Blasi, a ...

The northern lights can be seen in different colors, each color is based on the height and type of molecules hit by the ...