American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is sounding the alarm about the decade-long decline in student test scores, pointing to screens and devices as a culprit. She’s calling it a ...

Despite high-profile hacks and a $20 billion drop in total value locked, DeFi advocates argue that critics are overstating security risks and ignoring the sector’s broader growth. DeFi Technologies ...

Re “The Slump in Student Achievement Persists” (The Upshot, May 16): Our tragic educational decline requires preaching as well as teaching. The teachers are the foot soldiers, but we have no generals ...

Yet there's an unanswered question hanging over the new generation of obesity drugs. They haven't lived through a serious slowdown in consumer spending since exploding in popularity in recent ‌years, ...

The question of why student test scores have been sliding for years is not hard to answer (“Leadership change at Baltimore City Schools: Chief academic officer plans departure,” March 16). It would be ...

It takes backbone to solve an enigma like the “falling cat” problem. By Taylor Mitchell Brown In 1894, the French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey tried to resolve a particularly vexing question in ...

When cats fall, they usually land on their feet. This uncanny ability to right themselves before hitting the ground has long puzzled scientists. Now, a team from Yamaguchi University in Japan has the ...

Why do falling cats always seem to land on their feet? Scientists have been arguing about the precise mechanism for a very long time—since at least 1700, in fact—conducting all manner of experiments ...

The Marine Corps just killed height-and-weight screenings. A completely new method is now the standard for every Marine's body composition check. Here is what Marines need to know. The Marine Corps ...

Paint chips that have been falling from the 28th Street Bridge in Baltimore onto Falls Road and into the Jones Falls stream tested positive for elevated amounts of lead, according to the Maryland ...

Danish company Novo Nordisk's experimental obesity drug CagriSema lost a direct head-to-head trial against Eli Lilly's tirzepatide (Zepbound/Mounjaro), achieving 23% body weight reduction over 84 ...