A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less likely to adjust their thinking after making mistakes during number ...

A decade or so ago, reading instruction underwent a public reassessment. Whole language approaches had emphasized immersion in texts and contextual, “cue"-based guessing strategies. The goals were ...

Terence Tao was a prodigy almost from birth: reading at two, studying university-level math at nine, and earning a Princeton PhD by twenty. But the most surprising part of his story is not how ...

Most of us have experienced that when our body is still and resting, the mind doesn't stop. Instead, it takes off on its own journey of generating thoughts about our past, our plans, and the people ...

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“Theater of the Mind” is quite unlike anything else Chicago’s Goodman Theatre has produced in its first 100 years. That is unsurprising, because David Byrne’s infinitely curious collection of geeky ...

Autistic children are 160 times more likely to drown than their neurotypical peers, highlighting the importance of providing water safety lessons tailored to their needs. Florida International ...

Cycling is synonymous with the spring season, given its call for us to be outdoors and the abundance of trails in Pennsylvania to take in the gorgeous blooms, colors and smells. For some, it’s also a ...

Our brain and metabolism are tightly interlinked physiologically, say scientists in Singapore who are studying the links between them — an emerging field known as neurometabolism. They are studying a ...