Cassidy has asked 35 institutions about incoming students' math abilities, citing a "crisis" in K-12 math education.

When students begin to see themselves as math thinkers, they engage actively, explore creatively, and feel more motivated.

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

Sandia National Labs today released an update on its neuromorphic computing research, reporting that these systems, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are surprisingly adept at solving ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When it comes to brain health, you might think about omega-3s, leafy greens, or berries. But there's ...

Research on conditions like autism, schizophrenia and even brain cancer increasingly relies on clusters of human cells called brain organoids. These pea-size bits of neural tissue model aspects of ...

When most people think about aging, they imagine a linear progression towards an inevitable end. They think in terms of birthdays, knowing that the more candles on the cake, the more we should ...