Urban heat, a solution for plastic pollution and saving gopher frogs. Plus, Raven Rock State Park. How heat acts like a “silent killer” across urban landscapes, and a breeding program that gives ...

Kiley Pappas, a fifth-grader at Quail Run Elementary School, likes to jump off things. Unfortunately, jumping off swings and boxes can be both problematic and painful. Kiley has broken both her arm ...

New research details an intriguing new way to solve "unsolvable" algebra problems that go beyond the fourth degree – something that has generally been deemed impossible using traditional methods for ...

Decades of research has shown promise for using microbiome science to solve several problems facing agriculture, but these findings have not yet been translated to practical recommendations for ...

The Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Socrates challenging a student with the "doubling the square" problem in about 385 B.C.E. When asked to double the area of a square, the student doubled the ...

The Program for International Student Assessment showed that 2012 math literacy data of 15-year[1]old students in 21 countries have higher averages than U.S. students. National Inventors Hall of Fame ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Public Safety Initiatives is hosting a contest to encourage interdisciplinary teams of students and faculty to develop ways public safety problems can be ...

Sleeping on a challenge may actually work as scientists find dreams can help your brain rethink and solve tough problems overnight.

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

As quantum computing develops, scientists are working to identify tasks for which quantum computers have a clear advantage over classical computers. So far, researchers have only pinpointed a handful ...