To an adult, a child's toy may appear to be nothing but a colorful piece of plastic that clutters the lounge room floor. But in reality, a simple toy can be an incredibly powerful educational tool for the young minds that engage with them. That's why a toy manufacturer in Canada has developed Sam, the world's first transgender doll. Sam is designed to educate, not...
The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect for our dead. We have buried our dead for over 100,000 years and traditions of cremation stretch back 20,000 years; these are ancient signals of love, empathy, and belief in afterlife utterly unique to our species and culture. However, as...
Teachers and staff at San Francisco's Visitacion Valley middle school know all too well the problems related to violence in American schools. For years...
Astronomers have become fascinated with a mysterious mass of objects whirling around a distant star. The star, called KIC 8462852, is showing some unusual...
Concrete doesn’t usually warrant adjectives like “amazing” or “revolutionary”, but those seem like perfect words to describe a new development in the roadway material.
This...
