Boeing and NASA quelled two technical issues on the company's Starliner spacecraft, including a "design vulnerability" requiring a temporary workaround, to get the capsule back on track for its first mission carrying two astronauts to space, officials said on Friday.

Universities are using draconian measures against student protesters who refuse to deem Palestinian suffering “unreal.”…

Paige Williams writes that an ambitious experiment in Minneapolis is changing the way librarians work with their homeless patrons and challenging how we share public space.

In this politically polarized time in our nation’s history, it is easy to become frustrated when some people make arguments that demonstrate either an incomplete or utter lack of knowledge about the basics of American government. The frustration only grows deeper when many of these same people then refuse to engage in government either by voting or attending meetings to

ADHD is an ongoing and expanding public health concern, according to researchers studying the disorder. One million more U.S. children were diagnosed in 2022 compared to 2016, a new study shows.

About 1 in 9 children in the U.S. between the ages of 3 and 17 have been diagnosed with ADHD, according to a new CDC report. 

After skyrocketing during the pandemic, the number of students considered "chronically absent" from school is finally starting to drop, though still well above pre-COVID levels.

In the spirit of ruthless equity firms and asset-stripping hedge fund managers, pedagogies of conformity, silencing, and ethical abandonment now proliferate under the guise of budget cuts or overt attempts to transform higher education into white nationalist indoctrination centers. Universities are now viewed as businesses, students as clients, and faculty as a serf-like, casual labor force. Furthermore, administrative leadership has regressed, modeling itself after hedge fund managers and embracing a market-driven ideology that believes the irrational belief that the market to solve all problems and control not only the economy but all aspects of social life.

Agrowing body of research warns that the United States is experiencing a loneliness crisis. The U.S. surgeon general has cited loneliness as a public health risk. Researchers have found that loneliness makes people more likely to be angry and resentful, and more vulnerable to extremism.

Loneliness could represent a political threat, as well: a pathway to demagogues, mobs and destructive ideologies. That was an argument the German-born philosopher Hannah Arendt made in 1951 in The Origins of Totalitarianism, which examined the social elements that led to Stalinism and Nazism. And it’s an argument that some readers and scholars of Arendt are recirculating today.

An ongoing shortage of public educators in the U.S. includes a need for K-12 school counselors in western Massachusetts. Some other districts are eliminating school counselor jobs altogether or leaving them unfilled, as school budgets are alarmingly tight with an increase in a variety of expenses, including transportation.

WASHINGTON — Twenty-six GOP-led states are suing the Biden administration over changes to Title IX aiming to protect LGBTQ+ students from discrimination in schools. Less than a month after the U.S. Department of Education released its final rule seeking to protect against discrimination “based on sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics,” a wave of Republican attorneys […]

“Don’t mention the word ‘liberalism,’ ” the talk-show host says to the guy who’s written a book on it. “Liberalism,” he explains, might mean Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to his suspicious audience, alienating more people than it invites. Talk instead about “liberal democracy,” a more expansive term that includes John McCain and Ronald Reagan. When you cross the border to Canada, you are allowed to say “liberalism” but are asked never to praise “liberals,” since that means implicitly endorsing the ruling Trudeau government and the long-dominant Liberal Party. In England, you are warned off both words, since “liberals” suggests the membership of a quaintly failed political party and “liberalism” its dated program. In France, of course, the vagaries of language have made “liberalism” mean free-market fervor, doomed from the start in that country, while what we call liberalism is more hygienically referred to as “republicanism.” Say that.

While millions of people who couldn't normally see the aurora borealis took in the recent color-filled spectacle in the night sky, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory was looking straight at the sun to catch all the action. The fiery footage is well worth a watch.

Jessica Winter writes about the NBC reporter Mike Hixenbaugh’s new book, “They Came for the Schools,” and the nationwide assault on public education.

The talking machine was an overnight sensation and its 31-year-old inventor, Thomas Edison, celebrated as the greatest ever.  Edison called his machine the phonograph—combining the Greek words for sound or voice with writing.  The New York Times called it “bottled sound,” predicting that the elegant host of the future would draw from a well-stocked oratorical cellar to choose the meal’s orators:

As a pleasant and palatable table orator, he will select dry “Mark Twain” or “Beecher” although the latter has too much body.

Bottled sound became the phonograph craze.  Introduced in December 1877, by the spring of 1878, people were flocking in wonder to demonstrations of the Edison talking machine in churches, libraries, and halls of science from Boston to Chicago to San Francisco.  Many of the demonstrations were organized by Edison’s associates who would blithely suggest that “Mr. Edison’s work would now speak for itself.”

A Massachusetts congressman wants to discuss cutting federal funding to colleges and universities that he says have been "ransacked" by antisemitism.

Speaking on WBUR's Radio Boston, U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss said universities that fail to protect Jewish students from harassment are violating federal law and could lose federal funding. His comments echoed and broadened out his response to a question during a Fox News interview about reports of antisemitism at Harvard University and other colleges.

UMass Amherst faculty and librarians voted no confidence in Chancellor Javier Reyes on Monday. They said he "created an unsafe environment by summoning a militarized police force" to campus on May 7. More than 130 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested.

WOODS HOLE – Scientists with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have created an effective new method of tracking marine animals by developing a Bioadhesive Interface for Marine Sensors,…

Because the concert was recorded for broadcast on WCRB radio, the ‘wow’ went viral. Poet and author Todd Boss was among those who heard it, and he wrote a children’s book inspired by the event.

The university calls it a “restorative practice”; the students call it a coerced confession.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Jelani Cobb about the race riots of 1967 and political unrest today. He co-produced a documentary for the American Experience series airing on PBS.

The setting was the Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, Georgia that is dedicated to the preservation of paper technology. The show was titled Africa Beyond Paper and, in addition to various colonial maps, a lukasa board of the Luba kingdom was one of the main artifacts on view. All the elements of the lukasa board carry symbolic meaning. “Reading” the lukasa involves holding the board and tracing the designs and symbols with a forefinger.

I was completing my PhD studies next door at Georgia Tech and looking for a site to conduct my research. I wanted to see if the use of cultural artifacts and art in math, or computer science would engage underrepresented and underestimated students. After finding a school to participate in my study, one of the teachers emailed me.

"I also wanted to let you know that 10 of the students we will be bringing are MOID. If you let me know in a little more detail what all the students will have to do I can talk with the MOID teacher and see if the students will be able to conduct the workshop."

Not knowing what MOID meant I proceeded to schedule the workshop with the middle school students who were predominately Black and Latino. MOID stands for “moderately intellectually deficient” with characteristics that include being slow in understanding and using language and having some difficulties with communication. Luckily, I did not revise my plan because the students showed everyone that they were ready for everything that was made available to them. Understanding language and communicating was not a problem.

With the decrease of potential impacts from AR 3664, forecasters are monitoring new sunspot regions developing on the eastern half of the sun.