When school let out for summer on Wednesday, close to 100 Yalies left campus with a virtual toolbox in hand — a starter pack of data science methods, excellent for digging into whichever academic ...

Students in the science club at Pickens Middle School in Pickens, S.C., had been planning a trip to swim with manatees in Florida when news of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico hit last year. “I was ...

It’s that time of year again. The annual DonorsChoose competition to help underfunded classrooms is here, and as in previous years I have put together a page of anatomy, geology, and ...

“Systematic investigation of matter and energy without regard to immediate prac tical ends has turned out to be the most direct road to social riches.” This is the basic thesis of Atoms In Action* ...