When television is good, there's nothing better. But it's mired by homogeneity, sameness, consumerism, and violence. really ...

Chinese firms are accused of stealing US designs, but consumers, who prioritize low prices and innovation, don't seem to mind ...

Yann LeCun, one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, argues that today’s large language models only mimic ...

Judging by mainstream music in 2025, humankind is not in a particularly creative place. The year’s main storylines included ...

Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Lite-Brite and Mouse Trap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer's creations arrived in the ...

On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to ...

First-generation students make up half of all undergraduates, but only one quarter of them retain and graduate with a degree. A recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed ...

The First-Generation College Celebration (FGCC) is held annually across the country on Nov. 8 to raise awareness of first-generation students and commemorate the signing of the Higher Education Act of ...

Astronomers may have taken the closest step yet toward identifying the first stars born after the Big Bang. A new study led by Ari Visbal of the University of Toledo points to a distant galaxy, LAP1-B ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And now they may have just found them. Ari Visbal from the University of Toledo ...

UC Santa Cruz Educational Opportunity Programs (EOP) is proud to celebrate National First-Generation Week, taking place November 3–7, with a series of events honoring the resilience, leadership, and ...