Businesses Have a Lot to Learn From the Impromptu ‘Teaming’ That Happens in Theater
A Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University explains how the creative collaboration that happens in theater can be a model for companies developing innovative new products
Engineers Choose the Ten Best STEM Toys to Gift in 2024
Creative circuitry and rolling robots make up this year’s top toys for teaching kids to love science, technology, engineering and math
Cities Are Projecting Their History Onto Streets and Buildings After Dark
Pedestrians in Montreal, Grand Rapids and other locations can time-travel thanks to installations that map historical scenes directly onto the cityscapes
Can Virtual Coworking Platforms Make Us More Productive?
Membership services like Flow Club, Flown and Caveday offer online study halls complete with proctors and goal setting
University Students in Hawaii Use Cutting-Edge Technology to Digitally Restore Historic Buildings Damaged by Maui Wildfires
A new course at University of Hawaii at Manoa rethinks historic preservation, having enrollees design digital twins of notable structures so that people can experience them virtually
Five Programs Paving the Way for Gender Equality Worldwide
Around the globe, teams of women are taking on traditionally male-dominated roles
Forty Years Ago, the Mac Triggered a Revolution in User Experience
When it was introduced in 1984, Apple’s Macintosh didn’t have any striking technological breakthroughs, but it did make it easier for people to operate a computer
The Ten Best Children’s Books of 2023
This year’s top titles include an art history primer, a collection of silly poems and a mathematical word problem in disguise
A New Encyclopedia Explores Europe’s Smelly History
Odeuropa is an online database of scents from 16th- to early 20th-century Europe culled from historical literature and art
Ten Engineer-Selected STEM Toys to Give as Gifts in 2023
From coding to building to circuitry, these educational activities support basic skills to serve children in science, engineering and beyond
What the Covid-19 Pandemic Revealed About Remote School
The unplanned experiment provided clear lessons on the value—and limitations—of online learning. Are educators listening?
These Students Are Part of a 75-Year Study to Map Alaska’s Glaciers
Traversing an icefield by foot and on skis, the young researchers experience one of the coolest classrooms in the nation
Is This Elementary School Near Pittsburgh the Future of Education?
Ehrman Crest Elementary and Middle School is an innovative blend of children’s museum and classroom
Engineers Pick the Ten Best STEM Toys to Give as Gifts in 2022
Children can build strategy, critical thinking and resilience during expert-approved play
The World’s Largest Tree Is Ready for Its Close-Up
Friends of Pando, a nonprofit, is in the process of creating the largest image ever recorded of this single aspen clone in Utah
This Low-Cost Device Could Make the Deep Sea Accessible to Everyone
The inexpensive Maka Niu collects video and data at depths more than five times greater than trained scuba divers can go
Why This American Girl Doll Inspires Environmental Activism
The story of Evette Peters is bolstered by the Anacostia Community Museum’s research into Washington D.C.’s local neighborhoods and urban waterways
Sixteen Innovators to Watch in 2022
These trailblazers are dreaming up a future with cell-cultured breastmilk, energy-saving windows and more
The Ten Best Children’s Books of 2021
These top titles deliver amazing facts, fresh rhymes and important life lessons
New York City’s Unsung Monuments to Working Moms
Across the five boroughs, dozens of daycare centers stand as survivors of a massive effort in the 1970s to quickly grow a publicly funded childcare system
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