Primed with a few simple instructions, a group of 5th graders ventures into a rich ecosystem, alive with birds, invertebrates, and even a few mammals—like the rabbits they see, but can’t catch. This ...

A new course offered this past spring, Sense & Sensibility & Science @UChicago: Scientific Thinking in a Democracy, highlights how scientific reasoning and tools can help both policy novices and ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. In September 2019 ...

When faced with something new, human beings instinctively reach for comparisons. A child learning about atoms might hear that electrons orbit the nucleus “like planets orbit the sun.” An entrepreneur ...

Early psychology was considered a branch of philosophy that focused on understanding the human soul. In Western philosophy, the word “psychology” is derived from the Greek word “psyche,” meaning ...

OpenAI (OPENAI) has introduced a new benchmark, FrontierScience, which is used to measure expert-level scientific reasoning across the fields of biology, chemistry and physics. The new benchmark ...