Everyday frustrations in science, from clogged grant systems to confusing public messages, are not just abstract complaints. In a 2016 survey of 270 scientists, researchers identified concrete ...

New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger ...

Aeron Tynes Hammack, a physicist by training and currently interim facility director of the Nanofabrication Facility at the ...

The Program for International Student Assessment showed that 2012 math literacy data of 15-year[1]old students in 21 countries have higher averages than U.S. students. National Inventors Hall of Fame ...

It is sometimes said that 90 percent of scientists who ever lived are alive today, so why is science not advancing by leaps and bounds? To call a thing ‘scientific’ or ‘scientifically proven’ is to ...

Could the same computer algorithms that teach autonomous cars to drive safely help identify nearby asteroids or discover life in the universe? NASA scientists are trying to figure that out by ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable ...

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Want to really promote science to kids so they keep that interest? Give them problems to develop solutions for. For instance, some people still like to read physical books (I’m one of them). Sometimes ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University is offering a new series of Data Science in Finance courses focusing on applications of data science and machine learning to solve modern financial problems ...