San Francisco’s school district was in trouble. Only 19% of tenth graders had passed the state maths exam and were not required to repeat a maths course. That number dropped further, to 1% ...

In this experiment, people were mistakenly (or so it was presented) given gift cards to which they were not entitled. The response of the recipients was found to differ between those who were rich and ...

Listen to biologist Scarlett Howard speak in defence of ecologically irrelevant experiments on The Conversation Weekly podcast.

STEAM stands for Science, technology, engineering, arts and math, and Brooks said the studio is basically a green room, where they can perform their experiments.

I had a chance to catch up with EleVR’s Vi Hart and M Eifler to hear about their VR experiments and research into embodied cognition from creating interactive math museums built around 3D Venn ...