Childhood play experiences strongly shape a person's spatial skills, according to a new CIRES-led study—those skills can be critical to success in fields like science and engineering. Young adults who ...

Video games have a reputation – and not a good one, at least among parents. For years, I kept my distance. “Brain rot” some ...

(TNS) — A physics professor has created a way for students to hold the unseeable in the palm of their hand, manipulating magnetic fields and electrical charges to see how they work. Using augmented ...

Elementary school would have been much more interesting if educational field trips involved creating our own levels in video games. For one class of seventh graders at Evergreen School, a trip to ...

Research has found that structured block-building games improve spatial abilities in children to a greater degree than board games. Research from Indiana University has found that structured ...

Play may seem like fun and games, but new research shows that specific kinds of play are actually associated with development of particular cognitive skills. Data from a nationally representative ...

With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the last 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Researchers at the University of Toronto recently studied the effects of action gaming on spatial skills and discovered two things. First, there is a ...

Pictured: Dr. Ewan Kirk, co-founder of the Turner Kirk Trust. The University of Glasgow has launched the Turner Kirk Centre for Spatial Reasoning to improve maths performance in children through ...