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Manitoba is piloting a new science curriculum that mandates lessons on vaccination in Grade 9 and puts Indigenous ways of ...

Oct. 16, 2024 — A paper has solved a major hurdle facing researchers working with diamond by creating a novel way of bonding diamonds directly to materials that integrate easily with either ...

Rukmani Riar was a not so great student who even failed in the sixth grade. She was too embarrassed to confront her family ...

Earlier this month, seemingly everyone was talking about Rose Horowitch’s October Atlantic article, The Elite College ...

Oct. 24, 2024 — A research team analyzed wastewater surveillance methods for accurately tracking COVID-19 infection trends. Using wastewater data from Sapporo dating ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

It’s probably not surprising that students who are chronically absent from class tend to perform poorly on end-of-year tests.

The Moody Elementary School lived up to its motto of “I can, I will, I must” when it was identified as a 2024 School of ...

The state released results on Oct. 9. Of the Marin students who took the tests, 61% met or exceeded the state standard for ...

Rhode Island does not administer the test to high schoolers like Massachusetts does and relies instead on the PSAT and SAT.