A San Francisco Bay Area project is raising questions about what it will take to fortify highways against rising sea levels.

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The MIT Sports Lab helped develop a tool referees used to make clutch calls at the last World Cup, but their ongoing work with FIFA is just one of many collaborations with heavy hitters in sports.

Effective July 1, Indiana state law requires schools to ban student cellphones from starting to ending bell. Here's the policies of local districts.

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The ‘megafish’ living in southeast Asia’s Mekong River once faced extinction. A new rapid response system is helping reverse their dire outlook.