Welcome to the Thousand Words Project, a new, exciting set of educational tools that use artwork to improve writing skills. With the Thousand Words Project, students learn how artists create and apply ...

At the end of every year, The Tennessean asks its photojournalists to make their selections for our Pictures of the Year roundup. They sift through thousands of images and pull together the ones ...

Is speed reading a myth? Dive into the science of how we read, from eye movements to cognitive processing. Discover why most ...

While the dust slowly settles over a staggering case of scientific fraud, a bitter aftertaste lingers with scientists and editors alike—that of having been deceived by grossly manufactured ...

Yet decades' worth of scientific research consistently demonstrates that people are much better at remembering pictures than words. Recognition memory tests dating back to the 1950s found that people ...

In fact, a study in Taiwan showed that after nine years of learning a foreign language half of the students failed to learn the most frequently-used 1,000 words. How did this man learn 11 languages?