More than 900 students at UC San Diego needed catch-up math classes in the fall of 2025 compared to 32 five years earlier.

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He said, “How hard could it be?” Moments later, gravity answered. In this wild face-off, a skinny college student faces a backyard Ninja Warrior course that’s tougher than it looks. With homemade ...

Hard drives can't compete with SSDs for speed, but they're significantly less expensive—and that gap is widening quickly. Storage firm VDURA (via Blocks & Files) recently weighed in on the rapidly ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

With Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s calls to “reset” New York City’s housing policy to enhance affordability, one question looms large over the next rent cycle: Will there be a rent freeze in 2026? The answer ...

At 63, the South African--born golfer is still carrying off trophies. Hisgoal: to extend his winning streak into the new millennium and become the first athlete to win championships in six straight ...

The new edition of "Hard Knocks" made its return on Tuesday night, featuring the NFC East: the Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys, Washington Commanders and New York Giants would all be equally ...

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When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...