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The Most Vexing Variable in the Search for E.T.

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Google Wants Superintelligent AI. First It Has to Beat Teen Math Prodigies

While 630 young math prodigies were sitting in a conference room on Australia’s sunshine coast, readying their pencils for the International Math Olympiad, a potential rival was still en route from ...
Quanta Magazine

New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...
The New York Times

What Declines in Reading and Math Mean for the U.S. Work Force

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed. U.S. employers and colleges are contending with ...
Indiatimes

Optical illusion: Only a person who has eagle-sharp vision can spot the ‘LCD’ in just 9 seconds

This optical illusion challenges readers to find the word "LCD" hidden among rows of "LED" within 9 seconds. It's designed to test visual acuity and brain coordination. These puzzles not only ...
New York Post

US test scores hit damning new lows in math, reading since COVID school closures, ‘nation’s report card’ shows

The writing’s on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...
PBS

U.S. high school students continue to lose ground in math and reading, as yearslong decline persists

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 ...
Newsweek

High School Students’ Reading, Math Scores Hit New Low

The reading and math scores of 12th graders has dropped to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to results from an exam known as the nation's report card. The National Assessment of ...
CNN

US high school students lose ground in math and reading, continuing yearslong decline

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...
USA Today

Once these recruits couldn't make the cut. Now they make up a quarter of Army troops.

FORT JACKSON, SC – Every Tuesday before dawn, hundreds of hopefuls line up with exposed midriffs to be weighed and measured at this South Carolina Army base, which takes in more recruits than any ...