Indian Gen Z can’t read their mother tongues—and parents are proud. How English prestige, class anxiety, and hierarchy hollowed out culture. Read on.

“His name would probably have been in Aramaic: Yeshua.” In this single statement, Professor Dineke Houtman returns a familiar ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...

As the use of generative AI becomes increasingly common, we must beware of an algorithmic colonization of language and ...

The 2026 winner of the Excellence in Early Learning Digital Media Award, given to a digital media producer that has created ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...

The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and ...

Could these be signs of artificial 3I-ntelligence? With 3I/ATLAS streaking away from our planet, speculation remains as to whether the interstellar comet is alien or not. NASA has staunchly maintained ...

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

Humans have been scouring the sky for alien life for centuries, and we’ve had, let’s face it, little success. Proposed ...