Decades ago, we got into a bad habit. We got the idea in our heads that plastic was so cheap to make that it didn’t seem to matter how many plastic bags, bottles, drinking straws and countless other ...

Mathematics education through problem posing is an evolving field that investigates the formulation of new mathematical problems as a means of deepening conceptual understanding and fostering creative ...

Elisabeth Bik, a microbiologist by training, has become one of the world’s most influential science detectives. An authority on scientific image analysis who’s been profiled in The New Yorker for her ...

Google is upgrading Gemini, its chatbot platform, with the ability to “reason” through a research problem and compile a comprehensive report. The updated Gemini offers a feature called “Deep Research” ...

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How do machine learning models do what they do? And are they really “thinking” or “reasoning” the way we understand those things? This is a philosophical question as much as a practical one, but a new ...

It’s been more than a year since ChatGPT’s ability to produce astonishingly humanlike writing sparked fundamental questions about the role of artificial intelligence in K-12 education. Yet most school ...

The National Council on Problem Gambling has requested that research into problem gambling among active military members and veterans be included in the FY 2026 defense appropriation bill. The ...

The dissertation proposal and the specialty exam serve different purposes and should be viewed as separate activities, even though often executed concurrently. The dissertation proposal marks the ...

Inflation and the ability of Democrats and Republicans to work together top the public’s list of the biggest problems facing the country, with 62% of Americans describing inflation as a very big ...