Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

MIT scientists have identified cysteine — an amino acid found in foods like meat, dairy, beans, and nuts — as a potent trigger for intestinal repair. In mice, a cysteine-rich diet activated immune ...

Gilbert Strang never set out to be an internet celebrity. He just wanted to teach math. For 61 years, the MIT professor has been standing at the chalkboard, leading students through linear algebra, a ...

The percentage of failing grades in multiple UC Berkeley computer science classes in spring 2026 is significantly higher than past semesters and marks a departure from the department’s grading ...

Hundreds of University of California faculty members signed an open letter this week urging the UC regents and faculty leaders to restore standardized testing requirements for math and science ...

Most successful scientists are optimists. They have to be, since the vast majority of experiments fail. In graduate school, I remember sitting in the lab at Rockefeller University in New York at 3 a.m ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

For decades, relaxor ferroelectrics have powered everything from medical ultrasounds to sonar systems, yet their inner atomic structure remained a mystery—until now. Researchers have finally mapped ...

Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill into law that proponents say will strengthen Mississippi’s educational system. Senate Bill 2294, adopted through conference report, includes several measures that died ...

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

A decade or so ago, reading instruction underwent a public reassessment. Whole language approaches had emphasized immersion in texts and contextual, “cue"-based guessing strategies. The goals were ...