Digital books have grown in popularity over the past decade, but more Americans still read books in print than in digital formats. Overall, 75% of U.S. adults say they have read all or part of at ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

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Access to high school computer science courses has plateaued, and overall high school student participation in those classes has declined slightly, concludes Code.org’s annual report on the state of ...

Learning is painful, pleasant and, above all, communal. By Sebastian Castillo Late last spring I went through a period of some personal troubles and felt I was in need of spiritual assistance.

Over 3,700 unique books were banned during the 2024-2025 school year, more than double the number of titles PEN America tracked in the 2021-2022 school year when it began counting. The nonprofit, ...

When you choose to get your information mostly from podcasts and short videos, you’re participating in this revival of oral culture, they argue. What’s that doing to our society? To your brain?

Apple has made it decidedly more difficult to import .EPUB and .PDF files from Messages to the Books app — but it's not impossible. Here's how to do it on iPad, iPhone, and Mac. If you're an avid ...