The superior colliculus is a midbrain region that is traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important locations in space, like directing their eyes and head toward a bright ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about "scuba-diving" lizards, a trick to turn a mouse's skin transparent and whether finger counting helps kids' math skills.

Help kids understand election anxiety by limiting media, creating a safe space for questions, and teaching emotional ...

RSV infects almost every child before they turn 2, and kills more than 100,000 infants worldwide each year. Machine learning ...

A news survey shows that AI use among high schoolers has exploded in recent months, as educators and parents struggle to keep ...

Google's philanthropy is investing money to support five nonprofits in helping them provide AI training for teachers and ...

At what age should kids be on social media? Should they be on it at all? If they aren't, will they be social pariahs? Should ...

In this 2024 project created by fellows in the Learning Sciences Exchange at New America, teachers gain tools and a 10-min video to help them understand the science of belonging and bring it to their ...

Hundreds of students in Macon County are taking their science classes outside at Maroa-Forsyth Middle School and learning how ...

On his first day of school at Newcomer Academy, Maikel Tejeda was whisked to the school library. The 7th grader didn’t know why. He soon got the point: He was being given make-up vaccinations. Five of ...

At environmental charter schools, students are taught about the effects of environmental degradation — and how to be ...