Bahata Ansumali (in pic), a software technologist turned researcher, was in town recently for the Kolkata Literary Meet.

While market-working kids in India excel at mental calculations, they struggle with textbook math — while schoolchildren fail ...

I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

Well chosen names can quickly convey scientific concepts or health messages — in emergency situations they can even save ...

Art and science can be aligned in different ways. We describe one use of art as a tool: using ambiguity to evoke curiosity.

A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, Qafzeh, and Quneitra caves, were deliberately engraved with geometric ...

Sacred geometry, a term that immediately evokes curiosity, refers to geometric forms and patterns that appear throughout ...

Picture writing the numbers 1 to 5 in a horizontal line, from smallest to largest. Where did you put 1? If you placed 1 on ...

Flowers die. That’s the first thing we know about them. They’re fragile, temporary, and gone before you’ve fully appreciated their beauty. And yet, they’ve been a symbol of love for centuries. We ...

This episode, science reporter Dan Charles explains why abandoned land has conservationists and researchers asking: If we love nature, do we tend it or set it free?

The conversation continues, with evolving notions about what it means to be a woman or a man and the meanings of transgender, cisgender, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, agender, or any of the ...

Earth Scientists Study Sikkim Flood in India to Help Others Prepare for Similar Disasters Jan. 30, 2025 — Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened ...