Do you stare at a math word problem and feel completely stuck? You're not alone. These problems mix reading comprehension with complex math concepts, making them a common hurdle for students. The good ...

An imbalance in the kind of housing getting built and rising insurance costs are impeding housing progress, according to two new reports. By Ronda Kaysen The United States has not built enough housing ...

Global innovators tapped to help spot disease before it strikes Abu Dhabi has launched a global health innovation challenge offering $300,000 in prize funding to attract solutions that can predict ...

Dr. Klinger is the author of “Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes.” Over the past 15 years, it has often been said that China has a stranglehold on global supplies of ...

Elmira police display pictures of Alfred Murray Jr., the man they believe killed Mary Beth Simpson 61 years ago. Christina Lane, center, led the Russell Sage College students who helped solve the ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

NPR's Short Wave talks about babies' perceptions of rhythm, how sleep may help us solve puzzles and why snakes may be able to fast so long. It's time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, ...

February 13 - Israel has taken steps to help settlers acquire land in the occupied West Bank and widen its powers in parts of the territory where Palestinians have some self-rule - measures they said ...