The Program for International Student Assessment showed that 2012 math literacy data of 15-year[1]old students in 21 countries have higher averages than U.S. students. National Inventors Hall of Fame ...

What is needed for plants to grow? How might you select which plants would be best to reforest a desert? How long do you think it might take to go from a desert to a forest? What positive and negative ...

An event spanning more than 50 art exhibitions across Southern California – and featured on UCLA’s campus – explored the connection between art and science to confront pressing global issues. “PST ART ...

When computer scientists hang out at cocktail parties, they're apt to chat, among other things, about the single most important unsolved problem in computer science: the question, Does P = NP?

At crime scenes around the world, the forensic entomologist Paola Magni is taking her field into uncharted waters By Jordan Michael Smith Photographs by Guido Gazzilli and Claire Martin Paola Magni in ...

High school students from across Guam stepped into the shoes of forensic scientists last week, processing a "crime scene" as ...

Many researchers think that science policy is a total snoozefest. They imagine policy workers churning out boring white papers that sit idly at the bottom of a drawer, never to be read. But behind the ...

I spend a lot of time on the Internet; it’s become my second home in the 20 years I’ve communicated science online. And recently I came across an image that stuck with me: a cartoon of a sad, crying ...

Participating in a federal investigation was not on UC Santa Barbara marine biologist Mark Page’s agenda back in 2021, but after he got the call from the Coast Guard that October, he became part of a ...

Philosophers, social scientists and a Nobel-prizewinning economist on how researchers can get satisfaction from their work — and make a difference to the world. Syahirah Abdul Rahman spent five years ...