On the Nation’s Report Card in 2024, only two in five fourth graders were proficient in grade-level math. By eighth grade, ...

Serendipitous moments often occur when ideas or "hunches" are detached from their usual fixed positions in the brain and allowed to move freely, collide, and recombine, creating new insights. The ...

A report from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) released on Monday suggests a five-year decline in academic preparedness from first-year students, with some incoming students having ...

They're about to learn what hedge-fund investor Jim Simons proved in 1988: Having the same tools as a genius doesn't make you a genius.

Some say the reason most manhole covers are round is that a circle cannot fall through a smaller circular hole. Which of ...