Two Australian universities have tested “reading robots’’ to encourage primary school children to read out loud, in a teaching experiment that pits ethical alarms against concerns over declining ...

When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach math, which includes repetitive practice of math problems, did not work ...

At a U.S.-Saudi investment forum last month, Elon Musk, father of 14 children, said that in an AI-rich future only 10 or 20 percent of people will need a job, with most work handled by robots—a world ...

Brittle stars are eyeless, brainless animals that spend their time hanging out in dark crevices of coral reefs. But despite all this, it seems that they can still see...using their skin! Hosted by: ...

Ashwathi Menon, co-captain of UMBC's Indian fusion dance team, helps demo some of the technology in the lab. Here, she demonstrates the Katakamukha mudra as a robotic hand mimics her gesture. Parthan ...

A free kit developed by a BC professor and other DREME Network researchers is helping quarantined parents turn at-home activities into math lessons As the COVID-19 pandemic forced the nation’s schools ...

Regina G. Barber is a co-host of Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. Barber completed her PhD in physics at Washington State University with a focus in astrophysics, studying globular cluster systems.

In a candid conversation, the filmmaker discusses his history with Affleck and Damon, the feature he'll shoot in 2026 and ...

Behind a nondescript metal door in the Mission District, marked only with the symbol “π,” a new robotics startup is pushing toward one of Silicon Valley’s most ambitious goals: giving machines the ...

During Computer Science Education Week, fifth-graders trained an AI program to identify fish, learning firsthand how ...