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Watching Houston activists deal with the Texas Department of Transportation can feel like the story of King Canute trying to turn back the tides. No amount of community organizing can convince the ...

This story has been corrected. The Pentagon has released a modernization plan for Stars and Stripes that affirms the publication’s independence while expanding Defense Department oversight, ...

As a space scientist, every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at the sky. The front door of our home looks southeast, and on winter nights the constellation Orion hangs ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Vahe Peroomian, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (THE CONVERSATION) ...

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While conducting research on how AI was changing daily work at a U.S. technology company, UC Berkeley Haas doctoral student Xingqi Maggie Ye noticed a pattern that raised a provocative question: What ...

You notice it at 2 a.m. when she hauls herself up with a fever to comfort a crying child while he lies curled up on the couch. This post examines that pattern and why many moms end up carrying the ...

Since the pandemic, more children have been starting school without being “school-ready”. In 2022-23, 33% of all children starting reception in England did not have the skills needed for success in ...

Large-language models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm, but they’re only one type of underlying AI model. An under-the-radar company, Fundamental, is set to bring a new type of enterprise AI model ...

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While millions of tax filers are expecting a bump in their tax refund amount this year, millions more will owe back taxes. You can avoid taxes owed sticker-shock by using tax estimators to calculate ...