The EdTech Mess
Early 2000s classrooms were quiet. Simple, too. A single desktop sat in the corner like a monument to Accelerated Reader quizzes. A lab down...
Gus the T. rex Breaks Auction Records at $50 Million
It sold for $50.1 million.
Fifty-point-one. Just over. Far above what anyone guessed.
Sotheby’s estimated it would go for between $20 and $30 million. They were...
Is The SpudCell Alive? Or Just A Very Good Imitation
It eats. It grows. It splits.
At least, it does for five rounds. Then it stops.
Inside a University of Minnesota lab, researchers call their creation...
School budgets are breaking. Health care is why.
It’s getting tight. Like, really tight.
Public school districts are standing on the edge. Healthcare premiums aren't just going up, they’re accelerating. This isn’t about...
A Weddell Seal’s Swimming Class Under Ice
The Blind Film
Filming Antarctic wildlife is messy work. You can’t just drop a GoPro in and hope for the best. Postdoc Kaitlin Allen and...
Clouds as shields: The wild idea to geoengineer an El Niño
El Niño is coming. And it brings fire with it. Droughts, heat waves, chaos for every continent. The ocean temperatures off Peru and Chile...
RFK Jr. Eyes The Prevention Task Force
He’s not done with vaccines.
Not by a long shot.
After shaking up a key vaccine advisory panel with skeptics, Robert Kennedy, Jr. turns his gaze...
The Screen War Is Over. Here Is Your Peace Treaty
Summer hits. Structure vanishes. Kids find the remote.
The panic sets in for most parents. Screen time is the enemy, the theory goes. A digital...
Viking king coin masquerading as a button
A dirt-stained lump turned up by Morten Eek near Utstein Abbey looked like garbage. Specifically, a post-medieval button. One side was silver. The other?...
Don’t pinch your nose when you sneeze
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