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Commercial software created in the lab anticipates wrong answers and reinforces needed skills for first-year algebra students.

Author: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee - [Read more]

A cyber home learning system seeks to raise achievement and reduce the huge cost of private tutors, a practice not available to every Korean family.

Author: Dennis Normile - [Read more]

Schools across Scotland are flocking to link up with a national intranet that serves students, teachers, and parents.

Author: Daniel Clery - [Read more]

Software that helps students hone their writing skills is finding a niche in the classroom.

Author: Greg Miller - [Read more]

Last summer, the U.S. government created an awkwardly named entity to fund research on how the Internet can improve U.S. education. But so far, the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies exists only on paper.

Author: Jeffrey Mervis - [Read more]

Nobelist Harry Kroto argues that the best educational resources often come from "people who are passionate about what they are doing and want to share it"--even if those materials havent first been put under the sort of disciplinary scrutiny typical of material included in the National Science Digital Library.

Author: Jeffrey Mervis - [Read more]

A digital library for the earth sciences community and by the community is now also of the community.

Author: Jeffrey Mervis - [Read more]

A $175 million investment by the U.S. National Science Foundation has fostered collaboration and created vast amounts of material. But the digital world is changing.

Author: Jeffrey Mervis - [Read more]

The death in 2000 of a young Australian astrophysicist at the U.S. South Pole station raised many troubling questions. Eight years later, there are few answers.

Author: Jeffrey Mervis - [Read more]

Circumstantial evidence hints that cytomegalovirus, a common herpesvirus, may play a role in the aggressive brain cancer, but big questions remain.

Author: Greg Miller - [Read more]

A science adviser is only as effective as the president wants him to be, say the men who have held the job since Sputnik.

Author: Eli Kintisch - [Read more]

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Authors: Eli Kintisch, Jeffrey Mervis - [Read more]

The Cassini-Huygens mission team sends their best wishes for a happy, healthy and safe new year across our solar system. Weve enjoyed sharing the stunning... - [Read more]

Some fish-eating birds and mammals have full bellies but poor diets, say biologists puzzling over declines among these high-latitude marine predators.

Author: John Whitfield - [Read more]

Chemists at the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting reported on a cheap, easy way to grow high-quality sheets of carbon just a single atom thick and then transfer them wherever they want, opening the door both to better ways of exploring the new physics of atomically thin materials and to potential applications.

Author: Robert F. Service - [Read more]