Learning
Failing This Many Times Could Help Us Learn New Things More Efficiently
If the challenge is too easy we don't learn, but too hard and we're likely to give up.
Young Bone Marrow Boosts Brains of Old Mice
Study adds to growing evidence that blood cells play a role in cognitive decline—but human implications are still a long way off.
Obesity Could Affect Learning and Memory
Over-active immune cells eat away at nerve cell connections.
Study Shows Amazing Benefit of Music Lessons
Researchers investigated how music lessons affect language skills.
Process of Learning in the Brain Imaged by Scientists
The finding could have important implications for our understanding of how both normal learning and neurological disorders may occur.
Pete Holmes on Comedy, Belief and HBO's 'Crashing'
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.
Here's What Happens in the Brain When You Learn
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.
DARPA Brain Device That Boosts Learning by 40 Percent
A non-invasive cap stimulates parts of the brain via electric currents.
How Will Education Change In the Next 25 Years?
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.
5 Things You Were Taught About Grammar That Are Wrong
The prescriptivist stranglehold on grammar isn't just restrictive, it's often just plain wrong.
Smoking Hurts The Body, But it Also Affects the Mind
Quitting smoking may partially reverse the damaging effects on the brain's cortex.
Artificial Intelligence Has a Lot to Learn From Babies
Researchers are studying how babies learn in their quest to build more human-like machines.
Decoding Dreams to Examine Learning, Memory
Compared to waking life, the thoughts and memories shown in the hippocampus appear to be encrypted.
Age 5 Is Too Late: Schools Must Focus on Early Learning
A coordinated curriculum between early childhood programs and elementary schools is needed to take advantage of that crucial window in a child's development.
Early Childhood Learning Key to Fixing Public Education
Learning can't start soon enough, as early childhood education programs benefit the student and society at large.
Longer School Days and Academization by 2022
Chancellor George Osborne's Budget speech calls for all U.K. secondaries to become academies by 2022 and an extended school day.
Refugees to Be Given Lessons About Dutch LGBT Community
LGBT charities have reported a surge in homophobic violence in asylum centers.
German Universities Offer Free Education to Refugees
Despite the political unrest surrounding the Germany's refugee influx, its leading academic institutions are opening their doors to Syrians
Robots Will Soon Be Teaching Refugee Kids German
Developed in France, the robots are expected to enter classrooms within 18 months.
You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks
New research shows the brain continues to develop into old age.