18 April 2023
Researchers are finally getting to grips with how children's brains pick up reading. Now the challenge is to apply this to the classroom to help kids reach their potential in literacy
12 January 2023
School districts and universities are banning the ChatGPT AI that writes in a human-like fashion, but some teachers say a better approach may be to incorporate it into the curriculum
31 August 2022
Giving a TED talk wasn't easy, but I wanted to make sure my audience came away with a better understanding of dark matter, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
17 August 2022
Rather than helping, lessons may be encouraging pupils to dwell on negative feelings without the necessary support to address them
3 June 2021
University students tend to get lower grades if their classes and lectures begin early in the morning, because they struggle to wake up early enough to attend them
3 July 2020
Many of the people behind world-changing medical discoveries wouldn't have got into medical school by today’s standards, thanks to poor grades or misbehaving
10 January 2020
It is claimed so-called polygenic scores for education could help teachers, but a large study shows they don't reveal anything useful about individuals
13 June 2019
Schoolchildren in the US who are from poorer or ethnic minority backgrounds are much more likely to be exposed to noise pollution from cars and planes
27 February 2019
Peek behind the scenes of the lab at London's Francis Crick Institute, hear all about the proposed particle accelerator at CERN and play a new video game
20 February 2019
Tega is a cute, fluffy robot that appears to boost language skills in young children. Soon it will be trialled in a dozen classrooms in the US
