Learning

If the challenge is too easy we don't learn, but too hard and we're likely to give up.

Study adds to growing evidence that blood cells play a role in cognitive decline—but human implications are still a long way off.

Over-active immune cells eat away at nerve cell connections.

Researchers investigated how music lessons affect language skills.

The finding could have important implications for our understanding of how both normal learning and neurological disorders may occur.

The second season of the show focuses on Holmes struggling to build a new life after the events of Season 1 tore the old one down.

It's called the "production effect."

The brain is amazing in the way it can regroup and recover, and now new research shows how the brain can continue to learn without continuing to grow.

A non-invasive cap stimulates parts of the brain via electric currents.

Welcome to year 2042. You walk off a plane from Europe—thanks to cheap airfare—and hail a self-driving vehicle to take you to campus.

The prescriptivist stranglehold on grammar isn't just restrictive, it's often just plain wrong.

What is predictable and what's just noise?

Quitting smoking may partially reverse the damaging effects on the brain's cortex.

Researchers are studying how babies learn in their quest to build more human-like machines.

Compared to waking life, the thoughts and memories shown in the hippocampus appear to be encrypted.

A coordinated curriculum between early childhood programs and elementary schools is needed to take advantage of that crucial window in a child's development.

Learning can't start soon enough, as early childhood education programs benefit the student and society at large.

Chancellor George Osborne's Budget speech calls for all U.K. secondaries to become academies by 2022 and an extended school day.

LGBT charities have reported a surge in homophobic violence in asylum centers.

Despite the political unrest surrounding the Germany's refugee influx, its leading academic institutions are opening their doors to Syrians

Developed in France, the robots are expected to enter classrooms within 18 months.

New research shows the brain continues to develop into old age.