Over the past decade, precollege education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, has expanded and developed dramatically. Instruction

Robots that build solar farms, a drone that flies faster and lighter, a better food-delivery bot, and more.

Terradot, a carbon removal company, is using “enhanced rock weathering” to sequester carbon by spreading crushed volcanic rock over farmland.

Hype dims as a country-wide survey of US corporations shows a sudden drop-off in AI use among firms with more than 250 employees.

Tariffs, trade wars and technology have ushered in an age of uncertainty. Could blue-collar careers be a stable solution?

"Hanging by the Blockbuster door to see if any good movies were returned."

Three books reckon with technological complexity and the wicked problems it creates.

“To be a victim of change is to ignore its existence.”

The nation needs a strategy for children’s media that draws from the trusted legacy of public media and leverages today’s most promising tech tools.

Lockers on the go.

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri.

The James Webb Space Telescope have found evidence of massive planets capable of forming their own planetary systems — without a star.

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Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

This strange microscopic structure may whisper ancient evolutionary secrets.

One of America's biggest charging networks is keeping its foot on the accelerator, despite a rough patch for the EV market.

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On July 4th, an enormous tax and spending bill (“BBB”) was signed into law after passing through Congress via the reconciliation process and along partisan lines.

Chinese and Hong Kong scientists succeed in animal trials, but potential problems include risk of devices being left in body and public suspicions Swarms of tiny robots, each no larger than a speck of dust, could be deployed to cure stubborn infected sinuses before being blown out through the nose into a tissue, researchers have claimed. The micro-robots are a fraction of the width of a human hair and have been inserted successfully into animal sinuses in pre-clinical trials by researchers at universities in China and Hong Kong. Continue reading...