During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing several months ago, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) and Education Secretary Linda McMahon failed to perform basic arithmetic by calculating $1.58 billion ...

The COLA method can help identify whether you're operating on speculation, belief, evidence, or principle—and respond ...

Lehigh researchers create new method that improves consistency between predicted and observed data. An international team of mathematicians led by Lehigh University statistician Taeho Kim has ...

The 80/20 rule dictates that your stuff should take up only 80 percent of a given space — a closet, a drawer, a bookshelf — leaving 20 percent empty. Think of it as headroom for your stuff: Leaving ...

Ah, the halcyon days of 1993. What a year it was! Bill Nye the Science Guy started airing in syndication, Jerry Seinfeld was 39 and going out with a teenage girl, and Craisins were finally, finally ...

Is France less safe than Rwanda and Bangladesh? The new World Safety Index has raised questions on security across Europe. People feel less safe walking alone at night in Italy and France than in ...

On the Wednesday, October 22, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: The 2025 Nation’s Report Card reveals that US students are still falling behind in reading and math. Martin West, Academic Dean at ...

A popular diagram for teaching plot structure to middle and high school students looks like a mountain, mapping out exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It’s an apt ...

Thanks for following our live updates on the major internet outage, we're bringing our coverage to a close now. Downdetector said it received more than 6.5 million reports from users today, with more ...

Elena Rybakina and Mirra Andreeva are vying for the final spot in the WTA Finals. If Rybakina wins one more match this week in Tokyo, she'll qualify for the final spot in the eight-player tournament ...

High school athletes in Ohio can profit from their name, image and likeness — at least for now. A Franklin County judge ruled in favor of one of the top high school football players in the country, ...

A simple looking grade-school math problem has stumped the masses. Can you solve it correctly? The simple equation shared by @BholanathDutta on X this week, who regularly posts brainteasers, read ...