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 ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

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

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 ...

They’ve got their 3Is on the prize. The highly anticipated data 3I/ATLAS’ Earth tour last month is in. A targeted scan of 3I/ATLAS for signs of radio transmitting tech has come up empty — but Harvard ...