The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics makes the argument that teachers, principals, and district leaders must “stay ...

Most people ask the retirement question the wrong way. They want a magic number. A single line in the sand. “If I have $1 ...

Historians assumed that humans first started gambling in the Old World. Scholars traced the earliest dice to Bronze Age ...

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Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

In 2019, Monte Leifheit, a warehouse operator at 3M, noticed his left eye was bloodshot and swollen. What began as a minor irritation turned into a yearlong medical odyssey marked by the lack of a ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

I’m a new principal investigator (PI) with my own laboratory at a prestigious university. The PhD students who make it into our programme have already achieved a lot academically. But, sometimes, that ...

As well, in recent years, researchers have found ways to influence dreams by communicating with people while they are in a lucid state. In 2021, Ken Paller and Karen Konkoly of Northwestern University ...

Michelle Rodriguez starts every morning with a shock of about 300 volts to her right wrist. The 35-year-old in Germantown, Md., wanted a more aggressive alarm clock after sleeping through an important ...