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What kids are doing on tablets seems to matter more than how long they use them. PeopleImages/iStock via Getty Images

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Screen time guidelines for kids and adolescents have shifted as research paints a more nuanced picture

Staff Writer - July 19, 2026

Meeting data center power demands will mean building more transmission lines and acquiring more land to put them on. These lines are in California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

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When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?

In quantum entanglement, you can learn something about one particle by observing the other in its pair, even across vast distances. koto_feja/E+ via Getty Images

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What does it mean to be ‘quantum’? A physicist explains the basics behind Einstein’s spooky actions at a distance

While there are benefits to personalized tutoring, the evidence isn’t clear that having AI tutors helps students learn better or faster. CreativaImages/iStock/Getty Images Plus

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Despite the growth of some AI schools like Alpha, research doesn’t show that AI tutors are better than human teachers

Keith Krach Speaking

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Keith Krach, Freedom, and America’s Next 250 Years

Amazon Web Services, hosted in data centers like this one in Virginia, supports thousands of websites, apps and online services – but not during its recent DNS outage. Nathan Howard/Getty Images

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What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of...

Staff Writer - November 2, 2025

If students can’t demonstrate their thinking, how can professors know whether they are learning? SDI Productions via Getty Images

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Where does human thinking end and AI begin? An AI authorship...

Staff Writer - October 30, 2025

The Stanford linear accelerator creates super short X-ray pulses. Steve Jurvetson/Flickr, CC BY

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Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed

Staff Writer - October 15, 2025

This illustration shows, from left to right: John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach, CC BY-NC

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From artificial atoms to quantum information machines: Inside the 2025 Nobel...

Staff Writer - October 12, 2025

Prof. Jie Huang stands with the MOF-based breathalyzer his lab developed with support from the NIH. Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T

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Our engineering team is making versatile, tiny sensors from the Nobel-winning...

Staff Writer - October 11, 2025

A new AI research center opening in North Carolina: Colleges and universities are embracing AI technology, often through corporate partnerships. North Carolina Central University via Getty Images

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Why higher ed’s AI rush could put corporate interests over public...

Staff Writer - October 8, 2025

The world’s largest geothermal power station is under construction in Utah. Business Wire via AP

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Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including...

Staff Writer - October 8, 2025

Teachers need to be scientists themselves, experimenting and measuring the impact of powerful AI products on education. Hyoung Chang via Getty Images

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What past education technology failures can teach us about the future...

Staff Writer - October 3, 2025

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The ‘Three Pure Ones,’ the deities considered the most pure representation of the Dao. Unknown author via Wikimedia Commons

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From ancient texts to modern practices, Daoism provides a profound framework...

Staff Writer - July 6, 2026

Michael Naparstek, University of Tennessee Daoism, China’s indigenous religion, is one of the country’s five officially recognized religions today....

Life went on in the late 18th century, regardless of your everyday ailments. Archive Photos/Getty Images

How did it feel to be an American colonist in 1776?...

July 2, 2026

People are often concerned about environmental risks lurking near their homes. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...

July 1, 2026

Leaving the pyrotechnics to the professionals is safer and more spectacular. YinYang/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Fireworks, heat and drought make this July 4th a recipe for wildfires

June 30, 2026

Rescue workers carry a person on a stretcher in Caracas following an earthquake in Venezuela on June 24, 2026. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images

Aid is on the way after Venezuela’s earthquakes, but it’s not...

June 27, 2026