At first glance, the world of ants may seem far removed from our everyday lives. Yet, on closer inspection, they often face ...

The Southern Appalachians have my heart. For more than fifty years, I’ve hiked worn footpaths through these ancient mountains ...

This framework offers a sustainable way for teachers to create meaningful learning opportunities from the very beginning of ...

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A human infant is born with roughly twice as many synapses as it will eventually need. Over the first few years of life, the ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

In 2002, Crater Lake National Park ecologist Michael Murray thought the park’s majestic whitebark pine trees were as good as gone. An invasive fungus called white pine blister rust was killing the ...

Obtaining sand that's suitable for concrete making is river-dredging — and mountain-crushing — work. But that's how the majority of sand needed to make the world's most-used building material is ...

In a dark room, in the middle of the night, a woman lies dreaming. Suddenly, her eyes beneath their lids dart crisply left-right, left-right. The eye signal means she knows she’s dreaming. Lucid ...