MIT researchers have designed silicon structures that can perform calculations in an electronic device using excess heat instead of electricity. These tiny structures could someday enable more ...

It began as an ordinary night in a quiet South African town - two students driving home after spending time together. But in the shadows, four men waited for their chance. What followed was a violent ...

A dad was reviewing his son’s math homework assignment when the unexpected appearance of two words, scribbled in pencil, stopped him in his tracks. Reading the words back to himself, Dave Robbins, a ...

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The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER Photo: Cam Wilder The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six ...

The U.S. Department of Education released two new proposed priorities for competitive grant-making on Thursday, shedding more light on what initiatives the administration plans to champion—just as it ...

The bad news keeps coming from America’s K-12 schools. Last week it was the dismal results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and a report Tuesday documents more evidence of ...

The sort of violence that took the life of a Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month is impossible to make sense of. But that doesn’t mean ...

High schoolers in the United States last year earned their lowest marks on reading and math in two decades, according to “The Nation’s Report Card,” released on Sept. 9. The test, also known as the ...

Two MTA workers were injured in a pair of random assaults less than a week apart — and their attackers remain on the loose, police said Wednesday. The latest attack unfolded early Tuesday morning when ...

Superman has been performing pretty well at the box office (more so domestically than internationally), and even though the movie still has a long road ahead (it's going to face serious competition ...