Opinion
COLUMN: Is there any ‘safe space’ from all these new words?
Recently, the good folks at America’s leading dictionary publisher, Merriam-Webster, updated their pages by adding over 1,000 new words. This is important business since the last update took ...
AI program plays the long game to solve decades-old math problems
A game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the ...
How one school is making changes to combat pandemic losses in math and reading
While nationwide scores are still below pre-pandemic levels, some local districts are seeing improvements in math and reading ...
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Our Schools Have a Problem: Textbook Math Doesn’t Help in Real Life — and Vice Versa
While market-working kids in India excel at mental calculations, they struggle with textbook math — while schoolchildren fail ...
Tech Xplore on MSN2d
DeepMind AI achieves gold-medal level performance on challenging Olympiad math questions
A team of researchers at Google's DeepMind project, reports that its AlphaGeometry2 AI performed at a gold-medal level when ...
Scientific American2d
Google’s AI Can Beat the Smartest High Schoolers in Math
Google’s AlphaGeometry2 AI reaches the level of gold-medal students in the International Mathematical Olympiad ...
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Space X Is Having Problems With The Rocket That Will Rescue Boeing’s Stranded Astronauts
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Wilmore and Williams launched to the ISS aboard the doomed Boeing Starliner craft way back in June 2024. The pair meant to spend around 10 days in ...
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A deep dive on U.S. reading and math scores, and what to do about them
New research drills down on poor student achievement, and notes some school districts that are beating the odds ...
The New York Times3d
The Learning Network
Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see. By The Learning Network A breakup? The end of a friendship? The ...
Wall Street Journal5d
What You Should Do About the Stock Market’s Giant Problem
Have the giants gotten too big for anyone’s good? This week, the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 made up more than 37.5% of the index’s total market value. Many market commentators will tell ...
CNN5d
Astronomers briefly thought Elon Musk’s car was an asteroid. Here’s why that points to a broader problem
The mix-ups highlight difficulties with tracking objects in deep space — a problem exacerbated by the growing number of human-made objects getting jettisoned into the ether. Objects traversing ...
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Scientists make ‘rare advance’ in tackling the oldest unsolved problem in physics
“Turbulence was and still is an unsolved problem in the sense that we cannot exactly simulate realistic flows on computers, i.e. we still need a wind tunnel to design an aircraft wing. But ...