UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The research behind it earned a Test of Time award, recog ...

When solving a puzzle, the answer could lie in your dreams. In a study of lucid dreamers, playing soundtracks linked with unsolved puzzles helped the sleepers solve the problems the next day, ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Connecting the dots: For the first time in more than two decades years, computer science enrollment across the University of California system has fallen, a drop some educators see as a reflection of ...

In 2021, just months after the first COVID vaccines debuted, concern was growing about an exceedingly rare but sometimes deadly outcome of certain shots. Two related vaccines—one from AstraZeneca and ...

It was once a degree to some of the highest-paying jobs in the world, but now the University of California is seeing a drop in enrollment for computer science. Part of the reason is that tech ...

More than 20 percent of Americans express little or no confidence in scientists to “act in the best interests of the public,” according to Pew’s latest polling. Just 13 percent gave that answer in ...

What truly happens to the human body after death? From the first minutes to long-term decomposition, we explore the biological journey of the body shedding light on a natural process that’s both ...

Trisha Pasricha’s Jan. 19 Ask a Doctor column, “Five ways to lower your colorectal cancer risk as cases rise,” provided some interesting information. But the most important paragraphs of the article ...

Less than 40 percent of public middle schools say that they are offering computer science coursework. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up ...