Asking students to identify an example of what something is—and importantly, what it isn’t—helps establish clarity and leaves little room for misconception.

On May 6, 2016, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released new life science examples on subject matter eligibility (Examples 28-32, consecutively numbered after the previously released USPTO ...

Blue is remarkably rare in nature because true blue pigments are almost non-existent in living organisms. Instead, most ...

When Oscar Wilde said “conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative” he was unaware of some of the more extreme weather on planets and moons other than Earth. Since the ...

This unit will introduce middle school students to basic Python programming concepts while exploring space science themes. The unit will culminate in a final project where students create a simple ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. The rest of this article is ...

Pseudoscience is a system of explanations, methods, and assumptions that pose as science but don’t follow core scientific principles like testability and falsifiability. Pseudoscience is different ...

This course will discuss fundamental concepts and tools in discrete mathematics with emphasis on their applications to computer science. Example topics include logic and Boolean circuits; sets, ...