Potentially faulty data spotted in surveys of drug use and other behaviors among LGBQ youth
A new study found that youth were providing extreme or untruthful responses to CDC surveys on LGBQ student health. FG...
TECHNOLOGY
Mobile robots get a leg up from a more-is-better communications principle
Getting a leg up from mobile robots comes down to getting a bunch of legs. Georgia Institute of TechnologyAdding legs...
3 reasons we use graphic novels to teach math and physics
Graphic novels can help make math and physics more accessible for students, parents or teachers in training. Metamorworks/iStock via Getty...
Why a ban on cellphones in schools might be more of a distraction than the problem it’s trying to fix
The National Party’s promised ban on cellphones in schools has been touted by leader Christopher Luxon as a “common sense”...
Arithmetic has a biological origin – it’s an expression in symbols of the ‘deep structure’ of our perception
Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4. But surprisingly, we don’t know why it’s true. By...
What is most likely going on in Area 51? A national security historian explains why you won’t find aliens there
For decades, what lay at the end of this road was a mysterious secret. David James Henry/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA Curious...
Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public for the first time is the right move
Today’s release of the threat assessment by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) is the final piece in a...
Canadian government’s battle with big tech platforms and what it means for the future of journalism
Canada recently passed a law to address the continuing financial woes of its traditional news media, trust in which has...
Elon Musk aims to turn Twitter into an ‘everything app’ – a social media and marketing scholar explains what that is and why it’s not so easy to do
Everything apps are designed to help you do, well, just about everything you do on a phone. Busakorn Pongparnit/Moment via...
A brief illustrated guide to ‘scissors congruence’ − an ancient geometric idea that’s still fueling cutting-edge mathematical research
While scissors congruence accurately captures the modern algebraic notion of 2D area, things get more complicated in higher dimensions. Maxine...
