Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct floor of ...

John Parent sat in the kindergarten classroom in wonderment as he saw the “science of reading” paying off in October 2023.

CNN’s name hints at how the program outperforms the human mind in certain specific tasks: at every step, the computer can consider moves that are more foldy and twisty than a human brain can.

Catlettsburg Elementary treated one of its third-graders like a prince on Thursday morning as he entered the school’s main hallway. Students, teachers and administrators greeted 9-year-old Rusty ...

Jan. 29—When Regal Elementary students learned about contaminants in the Spokane River, they knew they wanted to raise awareness. "There's toxic chemicals, and heavy metals in the Spokane River ...

Jan. 29—When Regal Elementary students learned about contaminants in the Spokane River, they knew they wanted to raise awareness. "There's toxic chemicals, and heavy metals in the Spokane River at ...

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The beloved East Elementary School in Long Beach was saved from closure after a dramatic school board vote Monday evening. The shoreline Long Island community’s school had faced potential ...

"We have previously had two well-established types of magnetism," study author Oliver Amin, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nottingham in the U.K., told Live Science ...

(Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) Cecilio Garcia, a portrait artist for ChiGivesBack, helps paints a mural during a ChiGivesBack MLK Day of Service at Lindblom Math and Science Academy in Chicago ...