Is Data Science Your Next Career?
Opportunities abound, and universities are meeting them with new programs
'Redshirt' Programs Could Help Generate More Engineers
One extra year to prep for undergrad degree could make a big difference for some students
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From STEM to STEAM: A Carnival Ride Into Engineering
Will adding art and play engage a new generation of scientists and engineers?
Older and Wiser... Up to a Point
Old computer programmers don't fade away
Nao Robot Goes to School to Help Kids With Autism
The little humanoid wants to help kids with special needs and autism
FIRST and NI Announce New Robot Controller: Smaller, Faster, Super Rugged
National Instruments will provide FIRST teams with a brand new, and much more powerful, control system for their robots
Cornell Tech to Receive $133 Million from Qualcomm Founder Irwin Jacobs
Innovation Institute at new university campus to be named after IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient
Student Startups Shine at Demo Mobile 2013
You didn’t start your first company until you graduated? Slacker!
Literature Is Hard to Remember—Compared to Facebook
And gossip is more memorable than the evening news, according to a new study
Caveat Researcher: Open Access Spawns ‘Predatory Journals’
Hundreds of journals exist to squeeze author fees out of unsuspecting researchers
Going Back to School for Drone Pilot Training
There will be 10 000 commercial drones by 2018. They’ll need pilots
Tech Companies Treat Their Interns Well, And Some Are Already Hiring
You might want to put these employers on your internship application list
No Textbooks, Just iPads
Lynn University is putting its two-year common-core curriculum entirely on the iPad mini
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Safe at Home: Historic Datasets Illuminate Animal Navigation
Re-examination of records covering decades sharpens our understanding of how salmon and pigeons find their way home
U.S. Libraries: Computer Use Up, Funding Down
Libraries increasingly find themselves helping job seekers, e-book readers, and students
Do Libraries Have a Future?
As books become e-books, publishers seem happy to cut libraries out of the picture
CES 2013: Atari Founder Plans to Make Education As Addictive As Video Games
Nolan Bushnell says his new company, BrainRush, will change education as we know it
Games in Schools: Making “Ender’s Game” a Reality
An education researcher tallies the pluses and minuses of gamification
What’s a Good Job, and Why Aren’t There More of Them?
Technology is gutting the middle of the market, and five other myths about jobs
Who Can Hold 2 Billion Transistors in His Head at Once?
It’s impossible to do engineering anymore without using mostly other people’s knowledge
I’m in the Mood for MOOCs
To describe new massive open online college courses, we need new words
Hybrid Online-Classroom Education: How’s It Working?
A Duke University bioengineering professor offers his first impressions of Coursera
Training Engineers With Baseball
A new college textbook teaches introductory statistics through America’s pastime
Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain, Tellin’ Me Just How this Bridge Will Fail
Echoes from water-droplet impacts reveal buried structural flaws in bridge decks and other laminates
What’s Next for the Large Hadron Collider?
And what, exactly, is a Higgs boson, anyway?
Help CERN and Angry Birds Battle Evil
What cool phenomena should CERN and game-maker Rovio build into a modern-physics version of Angry Birds?
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What’s Wrong With Common Sense
A “Techwise Conversation” with social network theorist Duncan Watts
Columbus’s Geographical Miscalculations
Columbus based his ‘Enterprise of the Indies’ on three massive metrological errors.
Will Marvell’s Under-$30 Cloud Server Make Teachers and Students Smile?
This latest vision of the connected classroom takes advantage of the smartphones already in student hands.
Study: U.S. Colleges Ain’t What They Used To Be
Educational achievement has been stagnant for three decades. Can online learning help?