Growing up near the World Bank’s agricultural development project in Anyigba (present day Kogi State, Nigeria), Mark Akubo and his friends would visit the aerodrome to watch light planes take off and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A University at Buffalo professor who specializes in science education will bring his message of technology and student engagement to the nation's largest group of science educators ...

Teachers must be able to combine several important kinds of knowledge in order to successfully implement classroom science instruction for concept learning. These include knowledge of science content, ...

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...

"Squat! Squat! Squat! Higher! Faster!" In the basement of the Duane Physics and Astrophysics building at the University of Colorado Boulder, a science demonstration is going on, but it looks more like ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are specific ways educators can make teaching science more culturally responsive? When we talk about making school culturally responsive, science is not usually ...

A couple of years ago, five faculty members at Harvard University published an intriguing study. They had run an experiment in an introductory undergraduate physics course to figure out why active ...

Generative AI is becoming ubiquitous in everyday life. Large language models like ChatGPT can help answer questions, write email, and solve problems at seemingly lightning speed, pulling from enormous ...