Provided content. One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.

Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology. Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the ...

Recently, Toni Antonucci, a senior researcher at the University of Michigan, received a $13 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). For decades, she and her colleagues had been ...

How do you convince a teenager that a research career is within their grasp? Madeleine Cheung and her mentor, NASA scientist Charles Miller, explain. M.C.: In October 2023, two months into an America ...

Long before the federal government intruded on the already wavering trust in science, the field of K-12 science education was in trouble. Proper teacher training, the deprofessionalization of ...

Learn about a global citizen science project that crowdsources real-time aurora sightings.

Since 20 January, US science has been upended by severe cutbacks from the administration of US President Donald Trump. A series of dramatic reductions in grants and budgets — including the US National ...

Long before the government formally rolled out Project AGAP.AI, students at a public science high school in Quezon City were already coding, researching, and competing with the help of artificial ...

What motivated you to launch the Night Science podcast? Yanai: There's some kind of stigma, bias, or cultural norms against discussing this creative side of the research process. I think it's because ...