Graphics are often intended to engage children in learning otherwise dry material, such as data on a chart. Yet new research from Ohio State University suggests increasing charts’ artistic appeal can ...

Around 1900 many American educators advocated the use of objects in teaching mathematics and the sciences. R. O. Evans Company of Chicago published this set of twenty chromolithographed charts. They ...

WASHINGTON — Don’t be offended if your doctor writes that you’re SOB, or that an exam detected BS. The aim is to help, not insult: A project is beginning to test if patients fare better when given ...

A new study charts the 'genomic biography' of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, identifying gene mutations driving its growth, and tracing the shift in mutations as the disease progresses and develops ...

The number children being diagnosed with ADHD—attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—is on the rise, a new study from Northwestern University has found. In 10 years, the number of ADHD diagnoses has ...

Bear Glacier, photographed here in September 2019, has retreated about 3 miles from 1984 to 2021, according to the new study. (Deborah Kurtz/U.S. National Park Service) Over the last 20 years, glacial ...

A new study suggests Savannah and other U.S. coastal cities may be more vulnerable to rising sea levels because the land itself is sinking more than realized. As a result, some communities may be ...

A new study on why college tuition fluctuates concludes that changes in state appropriations are the most significant factor for public institutions, while private-college tuition is most closely ...

The stock market is showing signs of shaking off its late summer slump, paving the way for a potential year-end rally. But many of Wall Street's top chart watchers aren't buying it. The S & P 500 is ...

The simplified summary diagram shows the relative diversity of fossils in the past 2 billion years. Simple eukaryotic cells dominated the first half a billion years. Algae appeared around 1,200 ...

In the midst of all the apparent tumult, intense emotion, and occasional reckless behavior characterizing the teenage years, the brain is, in fact, evolving and developing the neural circuits needed ...