Images of maths ‘geeks’ stop people from studying mathematics or using it in later life, shows research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Welcome to Washington University. You begin your undergraduate careers at a time of profound institutional reflection and a discussion that-like much of what you will experience in the next four years±will be both specific and abstract.

Behind the fusillade of faulty arguments proffered by the Amethyst Initiative in support of lowering the minimum legal drinking age to 18 lurks an inconvenient truth: Doing so would only exacerbate the current epidemic of underage drinking, further jeopar

News Sentinel readers weigh in on whether to hold a child back or send them to the next grade

It has long been decided by society that girls are less inclined and have a lesser capacity for the sciences. While the female mind reigns in the realm of humanities, it is rare to have, say, teenage girls extremely interested in math.