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Career and technical education programs are on the rise and appear poised for greater expansion. Well over half (61%) of educators report their districts have increased their CTE offerings over the ...

I am lucky to have taken some incredible trips, including a recent one to “the end of the earth”: the island of Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost point of South America. In a week, we traveled by ...

It floats through Times Square on New Year’s Eve, plays during Olympic ceremonies and fills the air at corporate galas meant to celebrate “unity.” Its melody is tender, its message is simple and its ...

If you’ve ever stared at your homework feeling stuck, you’re not alone. Many children say it makes them feel stressed, bored, or even anxious. Why do teachers keep giving you work to do at home when ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. I like to talk, and, sometimes, when I find that I’m droning on and on, I rein myself in by ...

It's time to fall back. Daylight saving time ends this weekend. On Sunday, Nov. 2, at 2 a.m., clocks will "fall back" to standard time, where they will remain until next spring. Since we gain an hour, ...

Like haunted houses? Scientists do. That's because they're an excellent place to study how humans respond to — and actively seek out — fear. "Typically when we study things in the lab, we're exposing ...

As early voting begins, self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani continues to lead the New York City mayoral race. Mamdani has pitched himself as the candidate who will “lower the cost of ...

Art is subjective. No one person can look at one piece and interpret it the same as another. Each and every brush stroke, line and dot holds meaning. And yet, despite that powerful message, I have a ...

Daylight saving time in 2025 ends soon after Halloween, on Sunday, November 2, when we turn clocks back one hour. In 2026, daylight saving time begins again on Sunday, March 8, leading to more ...

Vector databases (DBs), once specialist research instruments, have become widely used infrastructure in just a few years. They power today's semantic search, recommendation engines, anti-fraud ...