A new summer series called Summer Reading Meets Citizen Science is designed to keep students and adults engaged with reading and research to prevent “summer slide” learning loss. ...read more
Increasing automation will likely hit people with limited skill sets the hardest. “Robot-proof” jobs will likely require greater education, interpersonal skills and adaptability. ...read more
The fastest way to make a new island is volcanism. The island of Nishino-shima in Japan has doubled in a little over 7 years, all thanks to lava flows. ...read more
Do dreams exist to protect the brain's visual cortex? ...read more
In the Peruvian Amazon, the Maijuna peoples created their own sign language — which hints at the importance of community in the evolution of language. ...read more
Deep learning eats so much power that even small advances will be unfeasible give the massive environmental damage they will wreak, say computer scientists. ...read more
We’ve shut down schools during past pandemics. Does that mean we should for the coronavirus? ...read more
Artifacts found in a Mexican cave are about 30,000 years old. ...read more