It seems like every day a new study finds tiny plastic particles called microplastics where they should not be: in our bodies ...

March is known as National Nutrition Month and on Tuesday, we got a lesson in nourishing our bodies. Chef Robert Wood spoke ...

It’s a familiar trope that when humans move into a place, biodiversity suffers. And there’s some evidence supporting that view. For example, a number of massive mammals disappeared from the Americas ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cracked down on lead-based products—including lead paint and leaded gasoline—in the 1970s because of its toxic effects on human health. Scientists at the ...

SINGAPORE - Six years ago, on Jan 23, 2020, Singapore confirmed its first case of Covid-19. The early days of the pandemic saw a scramble for testing facilities here, with the Home Team Science and ...

Terri Huggins is an award-winning journalist, researcher, and speaker with more than 10 years of experience. Her work writing about personal finance, parenting, and emotional wellbeing has been ...

Over the last few years, I’ve had the opportunity to review a wide range of AI-powered educational platforms. Some offered promising starts but lacked long-term value, while others quickly became ...

As a child, I watched reruns of the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon on television. I was drawn to the action and colors and, of course, the catchy tune. This was my early introduction to Spider-Man, as it was ...

Project-based learning (PBL) can feel like an overwhelming practice for teachers. While there are many moving parts to manage when giving students agency in their learning, the introduction of ...

Technology and peer learning can be used to optimise classroom time and enhance problem-solving skills. Here, Teck Seng Koh uses a sample lesson to illustrate how to develop students’ analysis ...

I wrote in October that we have been mired in shrinking academic outcomes for more than a decade, exemplified by a surge in students with very low performance levels. From 1990 to 2013, we made ...

As COVID-19 began to surge five years ago, no one knew what to expect. Neither did the immune system. Confronted with a new virus, humanity was immunologically naive. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 ...