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Psychology

Five tips for learning better from home

When adapting to learning a new way, such as online from home, you may need to adjust habits and more actively reach out when help is needed.

Science & Society

From buses to low-cost internet: Creative paths to online access

From loaner computers and ‘shared’ or reduced-cost internet, U.S. schools and companies are bringing the internet to social-distancing students.

Psychology

Learning will change with COVID-19’s social distancing

As COVID-19 has shuttered schools to foster social distancing, the way kids learn is changing. Here are tips from some of the first sidelined classrooms.

Earth

Let’s learn about geysers and hydrothermal vents

These are places where superhot water streams out of the earth. Plate tectonics explains how they form.

Science & Society

Before working on spacecraft, this engineer overcame self-doubt

Tiera Fletcher once dreamed of working on spacecraft. Gaining confidence helped her become an engineer who designs vehicles for moon or Mars travel.

Animals

Let’s learn about the creepy crawlies in your home

From ants to spiders to crickets to bed bugs — a whole host of insects and other arthropods may be hanging out with you at home.

Earth

Laundry tweaks can help clothes last longer and pollute less

Clothes washed in cooler water and for less time shed less dye and fewer fibers, a new study finds. That’s better for clothes — and the environment.

Chemistry

Scientists Say: Enzyme

This word describes a molecule that speeds up chemical reactions in living things. Enzymes work by lowering the energy needed for a reaction to occur.

Environment

Greener than burial? Turning human bodies into worm food

Composting human bodies yielded good results — and good soil — in one small study. It could become an alternative to burial or cremation in one state.

Health & Medicine

Silk can be molded into strong medical implants

Freeze-dried and powdered silk has a long shelf life. It also is cheap to ship and can be molded into sturdy medical implants.

Animals

Conservation is going to the dogs

Scientists are now training dogs to help track rare, elusive — and sometimes invasive — plants and animals.

Animals

Try This: Walking on water with science

Water striders walk on water. How do they do it? They spread out. This experiment will show you how it works.