A year from now, Gov. Jared Polis will wrap up eight years as the state’s chief executive officer, take off the governor’s ...

Seung-Hee Claire Son, an educational psychology professor and director of the EARLY lab at the University of Utah, spoke of ...

Could “fatty” or “starchy” one day become accepted as the sixth basic taste alongside the likes of sweet and salty? In recent years, scientists have proposed a few contenders for a sixth taste that ...

The editors of Scientific American look to 2026 as a chance to peer into the future to see what science may be unfolding and what discoveries may lurk on the horizon. But the new year is also a chance ...

Times Higher Education global rankings for interdisciplinary science list Duke at No. 6 On November 20, the Times Higher Education’s 2026 Interdisciplinary Science Rankings placed Duke at No. 6 out of ...

URBANA — After calls for Urbana’s new Sixth Grade Center to take on the name of beloved educator Flossie Wiley, the school board has provided an answer: “No, but ...” Rather than giving the building ...

AMHERST, Wis. (WSAW) - Sixth-grade science students at Amherst Middle School are ditching textbooks for hands-on learning as they work to reduce their school’s energy consumption. It’s part of the ...

Inside your body, an intricate communication network constantly monitors breathing, heart rate, digestion, and immune function — a hidden “sixth sense” called interoception. Now, Nobel laureate Ardem ...

Teachers are banning the slang “67” — and disciplining students who breach the rule. “I’ve been teaching for 20 years and I’ve dealt with all sorts of slang — nothing has driven me crazier than this ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

In Sarah Yuska’s sixth-grade science class at Monocacy Middle School in Frederick, Maryland, students are just finishing up learning about body systems—respiratory, circulatory, skeletal, and so on.

If you’ve ever emerged from the shower or returned from walking your dog with a clever idea or a solution to a problem you’d been struggling with, it may not be a fluke. Rather than constantly ...