If you’re a STEM teacher, then you face a recurring challenge during the school year: How do you design and lead high-quality lessons? After all, these are not typical science or math lessons. STEM ...

The secret to beautiful home design isn’t a secret at all — it’s about thorough planning and understanding principles of scale and proportion, color and light. Of course, that’s easily stated but much ...

Penn and Teller once had a show about “What is the best?” Engineers know that’s not a complete question. Think about a car. What makes the “best” car? It depends on why you want a car. For a race car ...

The level design of Mario games often seems simple, while gradually and invisibly teaching the player what they should be doing and how they should be doing it. Ideas are introduced in a safe space, ...

You've no doubt seen a popular video for Caine's Arcade that ran circles around the web last week. Beyond inspiring an amazing good luck story for the internet age, Caine Monroy’s now famous cardboard ...

Amid growing concerns about the poor design of animal experiments and its implications for the translatability of experimental results, Michael F. W. Festing thinks it's time we do something about it.