Science Education & Policy

It may be just a coolness factor for kids, but one classroom in Canada is getting a big boost in reading thanks to canine teaching assistants. University of Alberta researcher Lori Friesen's says one…

The Obama administration now has two Nobel laureates in physics - Carl Wieman, whose name you might recognize from his Science 2.0 posts on fixing science education,  has accepted the job…

Einstein's Theory of relativity is definitely one of those few theories in the history of physics,   that changed the way we see things. It revolutionized the cosmology in such a way that…

Does expertise make the difference?   It depends.   When it comes to climate change, having a Ph.D. and a faculty position does not mean as much to the public as it does for researchers in…

To know why time is not absolute, we must move back in time and see the evolution of theories regarding space and time. At first, Aristotle proposed that the natural state of a body is to be at rest…

Remembering numbers is one of the most basic things we do from a young age - early on, a combination lock or a phone number and later any number of things such as ATM codes, social security numbers,…

My son thinks science is cool. He loves biology.  My daughter used to like science, now she says she hates it - she hates math too. She's just started middle school. That's the age when girls…

It only takes a look at the Science 2.0 entry on Wikipedia to know their system is flawed (1) - anyone can create an entry but in order to edit it, like what Science 2.0 is, you have to document for…

Junk food will make your waistline bigger, which is bad for you, and candy is no exception.   But candy that makes your intelligence bigger?   Garth Sundem's Brain Candy is here to satisfy…

Education experts are going to have input into a  'classroom of the future' at a forthcoming summit in Bahrain. Naturally, they think it means more entertainment and technology and less…