Cactus catalog could help plant's prickly problem

With almost a third of cacti species threatened with extinction, a new open-access database of cactus ecology and evolution ...
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The cultural appropriation icon who refuses to acknowledge the problem

Republicans face a growing conundrum on the 'SAVE America Act' I-70 toll road proposal would charge a car $15.60 to cross state Jack White responds after quotes about Taylor Swift spark fierce ...
eSchool News

Fueling student passion for STEM with project-based learning

We live in an ever-evolving world, powered by advancements across STEM fields. Today, STEM has become increasingly intertwined with how we live our daily lives–from how we learn, to how we work, to ...
Phys.org

Machine learning helps solve a central problem of quantum chemistry

Within the STRUCTURES Cluster of Excellence, two research teams at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) have refined a computing process, long held to be unreliable, such that ...
Foreign Policy

The Problem With Representative Democracy

This issue is preventing our website from loading properly. Please review the following troubleshooting tips or contact us at [email protected]. By submitting your ...
Golf Digest

This golf swing drill is so simple—and it fixes a really common backswing problem

Justin Rose has been playing so well recently that it sent me down a mini rabbit hole, which is where I found this interesting little video. And now I want to try it. The video is from Rose's ...
Microsoft

AI that drives change: Wayve rewrites self-driving playbook with deep learning in Azure

LONDON – On a more than typically busy Thursday morning in Soho, the gray December sky spat rain. Traffic was stop-and-go, but mainly stop. Even the sidewalks were congested. Finally, alongside the ...
The Economist

The problem with promotions

Many congratulations on your promotion. It’s probably downhill from here. This deflating prognosis is not true of every job, person or organisation. But too often, a promotion is a precursor to ...
Education Week

Play-Based Learning Yields More Joy, Higher Scores at This Elementary School

Corrected: This story has been updated to more accurately describe how Mansfield Elementary’s test scores compare to those of other schools in Connecticut. When the doors to Mansfield Elementary ...
Slate

A.I. Tools All Use the Same Sparkly Icon. That’s a Surprisingly Big Problem.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Lately, I’ve been returning to a ...
The Atlantic

The Phone-Based Retirement Is Here

A friend of mine had just traveled across the country to see his family when he texted me, deeply concerned. The chaos of holiday travel is always a drag, but usually, it was offset by getting a break ...