There's no simple answer to what counts as 'science' in teaching reading

Dec 04, 2018 17:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

What is the best way to teach children to read? This apparently simple question has, in fact, has been the subject of robust and often polarised debate. Recently the New York Times ran an opinion piece titled Why are we...

New detections of gravitational waves brings the number to 11 – so far

Dec 04, 2018 16:39 pm UTC| Science

Four new detections of gravitational waves have been announced at the Gravitational Waves Physics and Astronomy Workshop, at the University of Maryland in the United States. This brings the total number of detections to...

Worms in space: why we are launching them

Dec 04, 2018 16:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

Space launches are some of the most spectacular and nerve wracking events you can witness. And when you are actually involved in one, you realise just how much can go wrong. We are currently in Florida, nervously counting...

Women have been written out of science history – time to put them back

Dec 04, 2018 16:37 pm UTC| Science

Can you name a female scientist from history? Chances are you are shouting out Marie Curie. The twice Nobel Prize-winning Curie and mathematician Ada Lovelace are two of the few women within Western science to receive...

NASA spacecraft gets up close with an asteroid that could one day collide with Earth

Dec 04, 2018 16:34 pm UTC| Science

NASAs spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has finally reached the asteroid 101955 Bennu which may be on collision course with the Earth after travelling for just over two years since its launch in September 2016. This mission, which...

Curious Kids: What existed before the Big Bang? Did something have to be there to go boom?

Dec 04, 2018 00:22 am UTC| Science

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions theyd like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome serious, weird or wacky! You might also like the...

The promise of the “learn to code” movement

Dec 04, 2018 00:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Science

This week, educators, students and the public around the world are participating in Computer Science Education Week by organizing and leading one-hour coding tutorials. By the start of the week, more than 2,700 Canadian...