The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The problem: That solution looks broken, too. The US job ...

As the College Football Playoff gets ready to debut on Friday, Dec. 19, there's plenty of talk about the state of college football. Between the NIL (name, image, likeness) and the NCAA Transfer Portal ...

Numerous voices claim to have answers, yet few are brave enough to uncover the underlying truth. The real turmoil of our time is not rooted in politics or economics, but in a spiritual void, ...

Reading levels dropped to historic lows during the pandemic. Now parents, teachers and tech companies are hoping AI can help solve America’s literacy crisis. America’s literacy challenge has been ...

Microplastics seem to be everywhere—in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in human organs, blood, testicles, placentas and even brains. While the full health ...

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From climate change and COVID-19 to violent crime and the national budget deficit: why are Americans increasingly divided over which issues deserve attention? And how do these divisions emerge even ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

The U.S. faces a housing crisis and growing threats of climate change. One global city is tackling both problems at once, and U.S. cities are paying attention. In this episode of The Sunday Story, NPR ...

Abstract: Optimization is crucial for the efficiency and reliability of multi-access edge computing (MEC) networks. Many optimization problems in this field are NP-hard and do not have effective ...

Two mathematicians have used a new geometric approach in order to address a very old problem in algebra. In school, we often learn how to multiply out and factor polynomial equations like (x² – 1) or ...