Gender & STEM Achievement
Girls get slightly higher grades in science and math worldwide than boys, but fewer enter STEM professions.
Robot Peer Pressure
Can robots exert peer pressure, influencing people’s decisions?
Parents, Kids & Math
An educational app helps parents with math anxiety help their kids excel in the subject.
College Racial Health Gap
A college education can leave some students with a health debt.
Affirming Essays
Brief, self-affirming writing exercises can help minority students excel in school.
Hawkmoth Flight
Insects called hawkmoths eat enormous amounts of sugar, but they don’t use it all for energy.
Talk Pedometer
“Talk pedometers” measure how many words children hear throughout the day in the home.
Brilliance Stereotypes
Gender stereotypes about extreme intelligence take hold in the early school years.
Babies & Music
A new study suggests musical games with their parents could not only boost babies’ musical development, but could help them recognize speech patterns, too.
Discipline & Empathy
A little empathy goes a long way when it comes to improving discipline problems in school.
Children & Noise
Research suggests that children can’t filter out noise the way adults can, with profound implications for learning.
Hands-on Physics
Experiencing physics phenomena first-hand can boost students’ learning of the subject, and leads to changes in the brain.
Children & Noise
Research suggests that children can’t filter out noise the way adults can, with profound implications for learning.
Bullying & Social Networks
Enlisting the help of influential students to reduce bullying and other conflict in schools.
Focusing in on Attention
Functional MRI brainscans could identify attention deficit disorders in the resting brain.
Parents, Kids & Math
An educational app helps parents with math anxiety help their kids excel in the subject.
Music & Literacy
Neuroscientists find that music class can boost students’ reading proficiency.
Race & School Discipline
Do African American students get labeled as troublemakers more quickly than other students do?
Curiosity to Learn
Heightened curiosity about one subject primes people to learn less interesting information as well.
Fiction & Social Perception
Reading literary fiction, more so than other types of books, improves performance at gauging others' mental states.
Personal Experiments
A researcher is promoting “personal experiments” that make self-care more scientific.
Ugly Animal Preservation Society
The Ugly Animal Preservation Society uses humor to raise awareness about nature's less attractive endangered animals.
Electric Math
Electrical stimulation to the brain can improve math performance.