This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Last winter, the federal government released the results of its semi-annual reading and math tests of fourth- and ...

A new children’s book, titled Simple Machines Made Simple, wants to demystify mechanical engineering for kids as young as a year old. It recently beat its Kickstarter goal by 700%—raising more than ...

Vibe coding — the fast-growing trend of using generative AI to spin up code from plain-language prompts — is quick, creative, and great for instant prototypes. But many argue that it's not cut out for ...

In some ways, Java was the key language for machine learning and AI before Python stole its crown. Important pieces of the data science ecosystem, like Apache Spark, started out in the Java universe.

I love elections. I love the whole process, the sense that democracy is alive and well, that people get to decide. One person, one vote. And the elections I really like are off-year elections. They ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Jason Riley, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. Scale drives efficiency—for almost a century, industrial planners have relied on this simple ...

WTF?! Public restrooms in parts of China are testing new dispensers that release toilet paper only after users scan a QR code and watch an online advertisement, a system that has drawn widespread ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Since the prize announcement, cheers and excitement have surrounded the home ...