In sum: Test scores have been trending down for over a decade. There are some signs of recovery in math, but not many in ...

The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals ...

It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" ...

Fans think Stranger Things didn’t really end. The “Conformity Gate” theory claims Vecna won — and the finale was a lie.

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

It seems like every time we try to estimate when the volcano might get there, the rate of inflation changes, making our ...

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...

Test results show a tale of two school systems across the Lehigh Valley, with suburban districts Southern Lehigh and Parkland ranking in the top 10% statewide and the large urban districts of ...

A/B testing is the gold standard of experimentation. It is meant to help companies make faster, better, data-driven decisions. But too often, it does the opposite. The meeting starts with optimism: a ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...