Pittsburgh Public Schools leadership wants to avoid the traffic, parking problems and road closures that will likely accompany the event. The district is still trying to address hours of instruction ...

AI could soon spew out hundreds of mathematical proofs that look "right" but contain hidden flaws, or proofs so complex we can't verify them. How will we know if they're right? When you purchase ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Recently, Iran launched three Earth observation satellites as part of a ride-share arrangement on a Russian Soyuz rocket. The mission was the latest for the Iranian space program, ostensibly civilian ...

Inside ASCEND Climbing Gym on Pittsburgh’s South Side, Melissa Marino is cheering on her 11-year-old son, Nico, as he climbs down from a 12-foot wall. Rock climbing is the latest skill Nico has picked ...

Earlier this year, San Jose politicians announced they were targeting the thousands of abandoned shopping carts clogging creeks and blighting streets. Now the first data on a pilot program aimed at ...

Portland Public Schools officials presented on Thursday a preliminary plan to scale up comprehensive academic offerings at Jefferson High School. The presentation came before the Portland School Board ...

Equibase Company, the Thoroughbred industry’s official database for racing information, on Dec. 10 announced the launch of a pilot program, Pocket PPs, to provide complimentary digital past ...

We look into the mental health crisis affecting American youth. By Sam Sifton I am the host of The Morning. The numbers are staggering. Nearly one in four 17-year-old boys in the United States has ...

In the wake of Del Monte Foods’ facility closures in Washington and the company’s bankruptcy, the U.S. pear industry faces oversupply and may tap into a government program that can compensate growers ...

Portland Public Schools released a feasibility report for its Center for Black Student Excellence on Monday. Voters approved a $60 million earmark for the CBSE in the 2020 school bond. (This money may ...

Like the rest of its Big Tech cadre, Google has spent lavishly on developing generative AI models. Google’s AI can clean up your text messages and summarize the web, but the company is constantly ...