Each year, inadequate control of plant pests and diseases causes global crop losses of roughly 20%–40%, resulting in economic damages of about US$270 ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help ...

Protesters gather at the U.S. Supreme Court on April 27 in Washington, D.C., as justices prepared to hear arguments over ...

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our ...

Eighteen different pesticide compounds were detected in public parks and playgrounds at 10 sites across Illinois last summer, ...

Aphids are found across nearly every cropping system, and their adaptability is part of what makes them so persistent. But ...

A new study, published in Nature Health, reveals a strong link between exposure to agricultural pesticides in the environment and the risk of developing cancer. By combining environmental data, a ...

Many of the fruits and vegetables you eat carry a concerning amount of pesticides, a new analysis suggests.The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a Washington, DC-based nonprofit, released its produce ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

The American workforce expects an unmet need for over a million employees to fill STEM-related jobs by 2030. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.

Some kids struggle with math. Now, scientists have pinpointed some of the specific thinking processes and brain regions that might explain why math is a little harder for some than others. When given ...