A good night's sleep has long been understood to help us consolidate new memories, but we don't understand how. Associations ...

Short-term memory is finite and fills up quickly. Here are 7 ways we can free up space for clearer-headed mathematical ...

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and state leaders were at Pine Bend Elementary School in Inver Grove Heights on Wednesday to discuss issues impacting students in the wake of the Aug. 27 mass shooting at ...

Memory isn’t just a mechanism for storing all of the information you encounter. Instead, it helps you to hold onto information that is likely to be useful for reducing effort in the future. That is ...

Co-authored by Xiaoyan Dong, Hannah Farrell, and Michael Hogan. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing how we learn and develop knowledge and skills. With the development of AI, more and ...

Running is a spring-loaded sport—and no, I’m not just referring to the springy, carbon-plated super shoes that have swept the running world in recent years. Muscles and tendons themselves act like ...

A heat wave can turn a classroom without proper cooling into an oven. Excessive heat can interfere with the learning process of any child—but in the U.S., the students who are most affected are ...

Princeton University celebrated the academic accomplishments of its students with the awarding of undergraduate prizes to seven students at Opening Exercises on Sunday, Aug. 31. “It is truly a ...

Marina Lepp, associate professor of informatics at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science, together with co-author Joosep Kaimre, a recently graduated master's student, examined in a ...

It's well known that alcohol misuse can harm not only drinkers themselves but also those around them. Now, a new report in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs shows that, among college ...

People who went through menopause earlier had lower scores on memory and thinking tests. Those who used transdermal estradiol had better test scores for episodic memory—like remembering past ...

As the class of 2029 pack their bags and head to Morningside Heights, they are set to enter Columbia at a time when its campus has been—and remains—in the national spotlight. This year, the University ...