Recent research shows that young children typically manipulate and rotate entire objects in their minds to understand ...

When you picture a map in your mind, your brain uses different pathways than when you actually look at one. In a study on spatial attention, participants recalled the map of France and judged which ...

Trains move through the world's subway stations in a consistent pattern: arriving, stopping, and moving to the next stop—and ...

An electronic eye implant has restored vision in people with blindness caused by age-related macular degeneration.

People who grew up before the 2000s remember doing things that are no longer common today. Rewinding a cassette with a pencil ...

Imagine you are a security guard in one of those casino heist movies where your ability to recognize an emerging crime will ...

One of China’s most important meetings begins Monday, as leader Xi Jinping and other ruling Communist Party elites gather in ...

Speaking at a "No Kings" rally in Washington, D.C., Bill Nye, the former host of "Bill Nye the Science Guy," urged lawmakers ...

Trauma survivors resist leaving bad situations they've mastered. Plato's cave reveals why: they've achieved wisdom about the ...

To effectively grasp new information, you have to engage with it in a critical way. The THIEVES method will help you out.

“Most importantly, reading at this age lays the foundation for a lifelong habit. A child who enjoys books at ages 10 to 12 is ...

At least 26 states have passed laws about how schools teach reading since APM Reports’ Sold a Story podcast began in 2022.