New budget deals means that California voters in November will select a new schools superintendent with an uncertain, but more limited role in education.

Most prosthetic hands today still struggle with a fundamental problem: No two amputees are the same, yet most devices are designed as if they are. That mismatch makes natural, intuitive control ...

WARSAW, July 1 () - Cannibalism became taboo in human societies not out of instinctive aversion but because it is ‌harmful to populations who practise it, scientists from Poland and ‌the Czech ...

Now that Sandra Boynton’s books have crossed generations of child-rearing — and her first, “Hippos Go Berserk!,” is ...

Last week, I introduced Emmy Noether, an extraordinary figure in the fields of mathematics and physics. To understand Noether ...

At Binghamton University, researchers were among the first to find ways to help patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy ...

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What Is It? Dyscalculia in children is a specific learning disability that affects a child’s ability to understand and work with numbers. Often compared to dyslexia, which impacts reading skills, ...

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Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" to each other. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in ...