This episode is part of “The Young American Scientists,” an editorially independent project that was produced with financial support from Regeneron. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science ...

Original story from the Salk Institute (CA, USA). Scientists use new 3D reconstructions and computer simulations to reveal previously unmeasurable changes in synaptic structure during key learning ...

I spent nearly every Saturday lunchtime in March and April with a bunch of strangers on Zoom. There were about 12 of us—a young man from Madrid, a middle-aged woman with a cat, a mother with a child ...

NEW YORK — At the gate, guests slipped their phones into little cloth bags, putting them away for the evening. As the sunlight faded on a cobblestone street, more than 200 students from New York ...

Bootstrapping a company from a startup in Croatia to a global platform is not an easy task. When my cofounder Izabel Jelenić and I created Infobip, my parents gave us a modest loan of about $28,000, ...

Is it cheating if you use artificial intelligence (AI) while completing your homework? It depends. How are you using the AI tool? What role does it play in your thinking — and why are you turning to ...

One of the first things Carl Mayes, CPA, said he did when he started his career as an auditor 20 years ago was to vouch: He examined transactions in a company’s accounting records and compared them to ...

Learning to read reshapes how the brain processes language. New research from Baycrest and the University of São Paulo shows that learning to read fundamentally changes how the brain responds to ...

Janet Alexander, founder of Hearts and Minds Learning Center, has spent decades in classrooms, learning centers, and conversations with families. Through that experience, she has developed a broad ...

As communities across the nation attempt to dig out from a massive winter storm, and brace for hazardous conditions that will linger throughout the week, states’ and school districts’ approaches to ...

Being a leader doesn’t mean you are always THE leader. You must learn how to read the room to know who actually owns the situation and step back, supporting rather than controlling. Ask yourself: Who ...

During a recent workshop, a senior executive said to me, “None of us knows how people will learn in this new era.” Lynda Gratton is a professor of management practice at London Business School. Her ...