A global photography exhibition reveals the hidden stories of women mathematicians and physicists battling bias, caregiving burdens, and academic exclusion. Can visibility change science’s gender ...

BERLIN — November 2004, a dull gray day. Across from me in a Berlin newsroom sat Olaf, about 50, a seasoned editor. I was 19, an intern fresh out of school. At the morning meeting, the Christmas ...

When picking a healthcare program, start with two questions about what job you want and how long the training takes. Program length matters because it affects budgeting, scheduling, and how ...

Massachusetts Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Pedro Martinez sat down with GBH's Morning Edition to chat about new graduation requirements, low enrollment rates, and more.

California and a small crew of other states are finally trying to fix a problem that has quietly tripped up students for years: the split between what high schools teach in math and what colleges ...

Dating is full of tiny money moments: choosing a restaurant, talking about travel, splitting a check, and deciding whether a gift is "too much." You don't need to ask someone how much they make, what ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, conducting encyclopedic surveys of academic literature, and even finding ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

Protein is a hot topic in the nutrition world, especially with the release of the 2026-2030 U.S. Dietary Guidelines. As a dietitian, I’m often asked how much protein people need daily. The answer ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Students, parents ...

The covers are off for edition number six of this annual exercise to start a new year by looking at major signposts and the directions they point us to. If 2025 is to be known across the ecosystem as ...

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and compliance. And ...