This video breaks down the surprising flaws behind the way we teach children the alphabet, especially the classic “A is for Apple”-style letter–object system. While it seems harmless, the method ...

English is undoubtedly the dominant language of global communication, science, medicine, technology, diplomacy, and the ...

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Ancy Caroline D’Souza, a research scholar from NMAM Institute of Technology (NMAMIT), Nitte, has been awarded the doctor of philosophy (PhD) degree by Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), ...

Stephanie Lowe reflects on what the government's new curriculum – with lessons on fake news, AI and financial literacy – really means.

A team of Sri Lankan evolutionary biologists has revealed that the island’s humble mountain loaches—tiny fishes often ...

The term "neurodiversity" is still relatively new. Even now, there's no firm agreement among experts about what it should ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

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Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are ...

The indentations are nests of fish called yellowfin notie, and they are not randomly scattered—rather, they appear to have ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).