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OpenStax reimagined textbooks and saved students $1 billion. Now is a moment to reimagine even more. How can education help students learn more, better, and faster?
Charles Koch Foundation
It turns out big ideas don't always fit in sign-sized slogans.
Even physicists sometimes fall for these. For centuries, the laws of physics seemed completely deterministic. If you knew where every particle was, how fast it was moving, and what the forces […]
Astronomers propose new estimate of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
In spite of a government mandate, females are often treated as afterthoughts in scientific research.
The politicalization of mask-wearing doesn't help stop the spread of infections.
Astrophysicists calculate the likely number of civilization out there capable of communicating with us.
Too little breathing room, tear gas, and insufficient masks are a recipe for disaster. Police are worsening all three. Across the nation and the world, people of all skin colors are […]
Sophists used rhetoric and debate to arrive at practical truths.
According to Harvard economists, Democrats and Republicans both perceive reality very wrong.
Smart bandages quickly identify antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and normal bacteria, in owies.
Can't memorize all those elements? If you're more into geography, perhaps this will help.
Solid, liquid, and gas are the three everyone learns. Plasma is the fourth. But there are two more, and they’re fascinating. How many states of matter are there? When you […]
Reveri Health has launched a new stress-relief self-hypnosis program through Amazon Alexa to help combat the anxiety of COVID-19.
Batrachopus grandis, an ancient crocodylomorph, may have chased down land prey on its own two feet.
Women and girls must be front and centre of coronavirus response and recovery.
Robert Whitaker discusses the long-term impact of prescription medication.
In 2011, a bizarre, green object was discovered. At long last, we finally understand why. One of astronomy’s biggest surprises came in 2007, when a mysterious green object was found. […]