Economists say that a typical middle-class family today is richer than one in the 1960s. Americans in their 20s and 30s don’t believe it. By Sabrina Tavernise A nerdy economics essay recently went ...

On November 17, my students at the University of Washington heard from someone at the center of today’s most complicated conversations about sexuality, labor, and the digital world. That person was ...

It floats through Times Square on New Year’s Eve, plays during Olympic ceremonies and fills the air at corporate galas meant to celebrate “unity.” Its melody is tender, its message is simple and its ...

America’s middle class is weary. After nearly five years of high prices, many middle-class earners thought life would be more affordable by now. Costs for goods and services are 25% above where they ...

Virginia’s Louisa County school district is on the leading edge of providing educators with professional development on artificial intelligence. Recently, the district has shifted its PD approach, ...

Artificial intelligence is here, and it’s wreaking havoc on court rooms throughout the US. The latest AI law blunder comes from the Maryland appellate court, where a family lawyer representing a ...

A lawsuit from users alleges that the streaming giant falsely represents that playlists and recommendations are tailored to listeners when they're actually subject to influence from major labels. By ...

To use artificial intelligence, or not to use AI? That is the question that all students and their educators face in today’s age. While people have been endlessly arguing the pros and cons of ...

This warship is built by ST Engineering in Singapore, in partnership with defense technology agencies (the Defense Science and Technology Agency, DSTA and DSO National Laboratories) as well as with ...

I once had a student who used AI to generate several of his assignments. The first assignment in my class is an ethnography paper in which students discuss the culture they most identify with and the ...

Vector databases (DBs), once specialist research instruments, have become widely used infrastructure in just a few years. They power today's semantic search, recommendation engines, anti-fraud ...

Shraddha Lall was affiliated with The Conversation U.S. as a AAAS Mass Media Science Fellow for summer 2025. As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit ...