Many people prefer restaurants that specialize and perfect a certain type of cuisine — they don’t want their barbecue restaurant to offer sushi, and see extensive menus as a worrisome sign of ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

When the New York Giants fired Brian Daboll in November, they appeared to declare, in swift and merciless fashion, that it was time for more discipline. The pileup of losses was the primary catalyst ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Filmmaking brothers Josh and Benny Safdie are on their nerve-fried version of an exercise kick. While their buzziest earlier movies as a duo followed characters on the margins of society—the addicts ...

Kid lit experts weigh in on some of the year’s best science titles. Plus, what to look for when choosing a book for the child in your life. Are you hoping to inspire a young reader in your life with ...

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Hanging from lamps, catapulting off countertops, tackling the dog, biting your legs unexpectedly—there are many wacky behaviors associated with orange cats, often captured on TikTok, whose owners ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Abstract: The recently developed approach to motion planning in graphs of convex sets (GCS) provides an efficient framework for computing shortest-distance collision-free paths using convex ...

Old heads like to call this generation soft for a very good reason. Back in their day, games were so physical that they often walked off with bruises, a limp, or sometimes, missing teeth. Tempers ...