Recent research indicates that children struggle with math due to their difficulty in learning from mistakes. In a study ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In the late 1980s, the Biosphere 2 project sealed a team of scientists inside a self-sustaining miniature world. Their goal was to see if a closed system could support human life, serving as a ...

OK, nobody wants to make mistakes -- but how you react to them makes a big difference in whether you learn from them. Two new studies looked at what happens in people's brains as they make mistakes.

Making mistakes has a way of shaking our confidence and making us question ourselves. When we stumble, negative thoughts flood in telling us we should quit or that we're simply not good enough. But ...