Despite mainstream media coverage of the 'controversy' over genetically modified foods, Americans still don't see the controversy. The survey found that more than half (53 percent) say they know very…

Women consistently score lower than men on common assessments of conceptual understanding of physics but there is no clear reason why. Controlling for student background and test-taking strategies…

How much impact can taxes and bans have on the conduct of people? Quite a lot. A 500% tax would clearly reduce demand while outright bans of desired products keep law-abiding people from using a…

Head Start, the nation's largest federally funded early childhood education program, which serves nearly one million low-income children, has a problem. Women employed under the program report higher…

One argument for putting a halt to government spending billions of dollars doing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) 'outreach' is that, like all government programs, they become self-…

The stereotype of the scientist is having little creativity and knowledge that is 'a mile deep and a yard wide.' Not so, according to a new paper which found that successful entrepreneurs and patent…

High-achieving American students tend to be white and well-off, much like throughout all of history. Is that a failure of equal opportunity? It is, according to University of Connecticut education…

Academic researchers are already bogged down in a sea of government and institutional bureaucracy, committee meetings, guidelines, unspoken rules and lengthy regulations. Will they embrace a…

If you want your daughter to do better in science, get her exercising, says a paper in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. All teens benefit, girls more. The improvements were sustained over the…

Lifestyle programs focused on high-intensity interval training or the Mediterranean diet have shown results for improving the heart health of people with abdominal obesity, finds a new study. "Each…