Research is increasingly showing developmental benefits of video games for children, but it also indicates a growing ...

Program change, collaboration, and interdisciplinary majors offer potential. Student enrollment is down, artificial ...

From self‑doubt to success, two computer science students gained confidence through experiential learning that turned theory ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So ...

Data science is everywhere, a driving force behind modern decisions. When a streaming service suggests a movie, a bank sends ...

The innovative program blends computer science and social justice education pledges to engage 35,000 Canadian middle and high ...

A little over a decade ago, schools were swept into what many described as a movement to prepare students for the future of work. That work was coding — “Hello, world!” Districts introduced new ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

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 ...

Chemists use many strategies so their experiments are as safe as possible. They think about what they can do to keep themselves and the people around them safe and then they do these things. You ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

A simple brain-training program that sharpens how quickly older adults process visual information may have a surprisingly powerful long-term payoff. In a major 20-year study of adults 65 and older, ...