When governments panic, they legislate. When they legislate in panic, they create monsters. Australia’s world-first ban on social media for under-16s, which came into force on 10 December, 2025, is ...

Could “fatty” or “starchy” one day become accepted as the sixth basic taste alongside the likes of sweet and salty? In recent years, scientists have proposed a few contenders for a sixth taste that ...

The latest NAEP results show eighth-grade math scores are flat — a bad sign after the historic eight-point drop in 2022.

A troubling new report from one of America's leading public universities has uncovered a significant gap between students' academic credentials and their actual mathematical abilities. The University ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

The International Monetary Fund has given India’s national accounts statistics, which include data such as the Gross Domestic Product and the Gross Value Added, a “C” grade, its second-lowest rating.

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...

The Basic Education Department said that it will start implementing language specific strategies to address the reading crisis in Grade 1 to 3 learners nationwide. Minister, Siviwe Gwarube said that ...

When Natasha Smith’s 11-year-old son sat down to email his teacher, she was shocked to read what he had sent. The 40-year-old mom from Washington state was helping her sixth grader with homework when ...