Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

The parks’ Lightning Lane feature was supposed to solve the problem of long lines, but has created new headaches.

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

The 4% rule allows $1 million in retirement savings to generate only $40,000 annually, which may fall short for those with higher spending needs or longer retirement horizons. Healthcare costs, ...

In a step toward biological computing, brain organoids rewired their networks as they learned to balance a digital pole on a cart. Try balancing a ruler vertically on the palm of your hand while ...

Chad Aldeman’s March 16 op-ed, “When high school grads can’t do math,” focuses on outputs, such as MCAS and the proposed MassCore. There is no discussion of inputs, namely the resources needed to ...

Sometimes there are cracks in your foundation that even the purest of hearts can’t fix. Recently, John from Raleigh, North Carolina, called The Ramsey Show and asked hosts Ken Coleman and Dave Ramsey ...

After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all. I’m standing in front ...

In preclinical findings, the investigational new oral drug TIX100 completely prevented weight rebound in mouse models after semaglutide was stopped — a discovery that lays the groundwork for human ...

He’s the whole 9 yards. Long Island’s Rich “Big Daddy” Salgado is the Batman behind the scenes of the NFL — a power broker getting things done for “thousands” of athletes who trust the insurance guru ...

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 ...