Tag: STEM
Rural areas have darker skies but fewer resources for students interested...
Emma Marcucci, Smithsonian Institution
The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and...
Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves...
Paul Bierman, University of Vermont
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound...
Debate over H-1B visas shines spotlight on US tech worker shortages
Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University
A heated debate has recently erupted between two groups of supporters of President Donald...
I wrote a play for children about integrating the arts into...
Rob Roznowski, Michigan State University
Often, science and art are described as starkly different things. That narrative can start...
Sci-fi books are rare in school even though they help kids...
Emily Midkiff, University of North Dakota
Science fiction can lead people to be more cautious about the potential consequences...
Heritage algorithms combine the rigors of science with the infinite possibilities...
Audrey G. Bennett, University of Michigan and Ron Eglash, University of Michigan
The model of democracy in the 1920s...
Students perceive themselves as a ‘math person’ or a ‘reading person’...
Sirui Wan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
Women are better at statistics than they think
Jonathan B. Santo, University of Nebraska Omaha and Kelly Rhea MacArthur, University of Nebraska Omaha
The Research Brief is...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
