This week’s question is: What are the best ways to teach the Next Generation Science Standards to English Language Learners? In addition to having to learn a new language and adapt to a new culture, ...

Few concepts are as fundamental to students’ understanding of biology and plant life as photosynthesis. And everybody knows what photosynthesis is, right? Well, a study published this year makes the ...

English is now considered the common language, or 'lingua franca', of global science. All major scientific journals seemingly publish in English, despite the fact that their pages contain research ...

English is considered the language of international science. But our new research reveals how important scientific knowledge in other languages is going untapped. This oversight squanders ...

A “clear and significant” language barrier cost faced by non-native English-speaking scientists has been quantified by a University of Queensland-led international survey. The study, led by UQ’s Dr ...

Another entry for the ever-expanding category of "the brain is a very strange place" posts. A paper in PNAS suggests that what we call a color may influence how we perceive it. The image below shows a ...