EDUCATION

Sukanya, who is an eighth grade student at Abington Heights Middle School in Newton Ransom, Pennsylvania, won the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee competition on Thursday night

A new study by the researchers at the University of Rochester has found out that when humans see the color red, their reactions become both faster and forceful.

A study by researchers at the University of Auckland, New Zealand has revealed that interactive gaming can help obese children become more active

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. This quote by Michel de Montaigne carries a world of meaning today, when education has become more 'competition' and less 'learning'.

Moral responses of people, to similar situations, change as they age, according to a new study at the University of Chicago, a report on the university website said

An MIT study has shown babies as young as one-year-old have the ability of making decisions about the prospect of a happening they have never seen before.

Students who struggle to learn mathematics may have a neurocognitive disorder, called Dyscalculia, that inhibits the acquisition of basic numerical and arithmetic concepts, according to a new research study conducted by University of Minnesota and British researchers.

A trip to the zoo can boost your child’s science and conservation education more than books or classroom teaching alone, according to a research study conducted by the University of Warwick.

Scientists have designed a pair of robots which have the ability to communicate with each other using their own set of generated language, a report said

The much awaited Google Science fair list of finalists is announced on Google's official blog.

One of the best gifts parents could ever give their child is the love for reading. So how does one inculcate this fondness for books in their little ones? When the child is a toddler, the parent reads aloud to them - the incredible rhythmic beat of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. And John Archambault continues to mesmerize toddlers even today, more than 2 decades after it was first published.

Most kids would identify with these lines about homework, from the poem 'My Excuses' by Arielle Perkins. After working hard all day at school, children wonder why they have to repeat Math, History, and all those things they'd so happily left behind in their classrooms.

A bio-mechanical experiment carried out at the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Engineering and Applied Science has answered a long-standing theoretical question if microorganisms swim faster or slower in elastic fluids and the answer is “slower”, the university website said

Researchers at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon are working on strengthening an approach to password security which is not just about what the user will type, but will deal with the way the user will type, reports said.

Many young business professionals are obsessed with choosing the best MBA program for them. They rely on advice from colleagues, mentors, and the numerous guides and rankings published by experts.

Business leaders are looking for a new edge. Their companies may be just barely alive, having made cuts they never thought they would have to make. The workers have been beaten down and overworked. The energy, the buzz, and satisfaction are dead. Why not turn to Internal Franchise, advises management consultant and author Martin O’Neill.

College education in the U.S. is a rip-off, it is no longer a safe investment for the future, and its quality has been so watered down that it doesn't any longer help you get the dream job. Moreover, costly higher education will rather cripple the rest of your life by burdening you with a veritable student loan debt trap!

After a mere 13 day delay, Japan re-opened schools in the tsunami-hit regions proving the country's resilience despite the widespread devastation caused by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and an ensuing tsunami that hit the country's Pacific Coast on March 11.

Cambridge University has beaten Oxford to the top spot for the first time since 2007 in the reputed annual Complete University Guide (CUG) rankings for 2012.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), world’s leading conservation organization, has partnered with the University of Exeter Business School on a unique MBA program called ‘One Planet’. The program will start in September 2011, an official release said on Thursday.

Take a look at the 10 colleges in the nation with the most high-stress environments.

At an extra-credit seminar on business ethics in La Salle University, three bikini-clad mini-skirted women were hired to give the teacher facing the class a lap dance!

Here is a list of 15 most off-beat college scholarships for 2011-2012.

A study has found that many Americans had inflated views of minority students' opportunities to attend college, yet a large contingent - around 43 percent of people surveyed - believed that low income students had fewer opportunities for college access.

The innovative accelerated program will give students an opportunity to earn their doctoral degrees in communication in as short a period as three years.

Under the program, postgraduates enrolled in and qualified to complete a PhD program under a university can be employed with a partnering private enterprise during the project period.

Professor Julie Williams of Cardiff University has uncovered five new genes that could increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has released a new set of preliminary recommendations for an overhaul of the Medical College Admissions Test.

When completed, this will be the largest, most precise and highest astronomical facility in the world and is expected to provide answers to some of the most fundamental questions of cosmology.