When an iguana crawled from a burrowing owl nest, John Johnson picked up his air gun and started a war. The lizards never saw it coming ...

Baltimore — Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...

This week's letters include a call to action from Beaches Go Green 2.0; opposition to proposed surf park; questions on U.S. priorities; and more.

Computing revolutionized most aspects of 21st century life, including language, with new and repurposed terms becoming the lexicon of a generation.

We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new research project is asking the same question about AI.

The whiteboard in Professor Mark Stehlik’s office at Carnegie Mellon University still has the details of what turned into a computer science program for high school students. Stehlik and colleague ...

For decades, quantum computing has felt like something out of science fiction — abstract, theoretical, and always “10 years away.” But in 2025, the story has changed. Quantum technology is no longer ...

The billionaire heiress who recently donated $250,000 to a super PAC supporting socialist Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral campaign is bankrolling a national push to bring “woke math” into public schools ...

A nthropic’s new Claude 4.5 just launched, and Anthropic claims it's the company's most powerful AI model yet. With the ability to run for 30+ hours on autonomous coding tasks, Claude 4.5 promises to ...

The nightmare scenario for artificial intelligence in K-12 schools involves a complete overreliance on opaque, biased, and poorly regulated AI systems. Teachers, lacking adequate training and ...