Our government has entered a new and dangerous era of corruption. This is a reason it so often fails to work, a cause of the ...

Climate change is driving a global boom in desalination as regions turn to the sea for drinking water. Desalination plants, which remove salt from seawater, are rapidly expanding worldwide. However, ...

As U.S. seizures of oil tankers linked to Venezuela surge, so do concerns in Cuba about whether the island’s government and ...

DHAKA, Jan 9, 2026 (BSS) - The Credit and Development Forum (CDF) has rejected concerns that the proposed Microcredit Bank ...

The Credit and Development Forum (CDF), a national association and network of microfinance institutions, has said the proposed Microcredit Bank will be a social business, strictly regulated by ...

Aravind Srinivas, the chief executive of AI search startup Perplexity, has said that artificial intelligence systems are still fundamentally dependent on humans to define what problems are worth ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

RANDOLPH, Minn. — When Donald Trump promised new tariffs while running for president, Gene Stehly worried that trade disputes would jeopardize his international sales of corn, soybeans and wheat. A ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

You probably don’t need more time. By Jancee Dunn When I look back on all the major decisions I’ve dithered over, I could scream. It took me a decade to commit to becoming a parent. I wavered for a ...