Dr. Wilhelmus (Will) van der Veen of Edison, director of the Science Education Institute at the New Jersey Astronomy Center, has received the 2008 Thomas J. Brennan Award from the Astronomical Society ...

THIS is the third of a series of text-books recently prepared by Prof. Young for use in schools and colleges of different grades. The two previous ones have already been noticed in NATURE (vol. xxxix ...

Michael Paolucci, CEO and founder of the robotic telescope company Slooh, has wondered why all schools provide students with microscopes to examine the small things in the world, but they rarely ...

The Feb. 23 editorial “Annual testing is a good idea if . . .” suggests that teachers might better spend the time preparing for exams by “leading discussions about literature or astrology.” I suspect ...