College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

ANDOVER (CBS) -- About a dozen kids are having a blast at a one-of-a-kind setup at the Andover Y.M.C.A. An interactive play wall gets them running, crawling, balancing and throwing. "We've found that ...

You did. Our recent stories on the Nobel Prize winning Stanford physicist who's pushing for big changes in how large universities teach science to undergraduates generated lots of interest, comments, ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

About seven-in-ten Americans express at least some interest in science news – in fact, they report greater interest in science stories than news about business, entertainment and even sports, though ...

The sun might be a magnetic slacker. A census of stars similar to the sun shows that our own star is less magnetically active than others of its kind, astrophysicists report in the May 1 Science. The ...

“I define the Organism, or natural Machine, a machine in which each part is a machine […], whereas the parts of our artificial machines are not machines” (Ref. 1). This statement made by Gottfried ...

At a time when scientific information is increasingly at the center of public divides, most Americans say they get science news no more than a couple of times per month, and when they do, most say it ...