Republicans are entering the 2026 midterms with a 217-212 majority in the House, with five seats currently vacant and one independent. All 435 seats are up for election, but with maps continuing to ...

Math difficulty is still not well understood. But a systems approach may lead to advances in diagnosis and treatment.

Some students stay in a teacher’s memory permanently, without effort, almost as if the brain decided on its own they were too ...

WATERBURY — The 115 members of the Class of 2026 at Waterbury Arts Magnet High School crossed the commencement stage during a graduation ceremony held at the neighboring Palace Theater on June 18. A ...

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The startup Coherence Neuro is now testing a brain-computer interface that could one day use electrical stimulation to prevent tumors from growing. Coherence Neuro says it temporarily placed its ...

In the minds of many people, math lives in the classroom—on blackboards, in textbooks, and in tests. New research from Amber Simpson, associate professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and ...

We are born with the essential architecture of our brain raring to go. Over the previous nine months – give or take – some 100 billion neurons have sprung from a single 3 millimetre “neural tube” in ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story. Then Allison Shapiro looked at the brain scans. An assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz, she was part of a team studying 13 teens and ...

DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - A violent multi-vehicle crash in a Deerfield Beach neighborhood left one person dead and sent three others to the hospital, authorities said, leading to an hours-long ...

A growing body of research shows singing and music build vocabulary and sharpen early reading skills. Yet access to music in early childhood is uneven. Nonprofits are embedding free music classes in ...