Editor’s note: This story was updated at 5:46 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, 2026 to correct who Karen Read intends to sue. Karen Read is asking a judge to let her use records from fired Massachusetts ...

Regular social media use during early adolescence is linked to weaker reading and vocabulary development over time, new research shows. Teens who spend more time on social platforms are more likely to ...

“Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which previously have been published in the New Yorker and elsewhere (each is illustrated with a drawing by the author’s daughter, Aza Erdrich ...

Senate staff have been approved to use three major AI chatbots for official work. That includes OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. Lawmakers and staffers have already been ...

This Read Across America Day, we proudly join millions of students, parents, teachers, and librarians across our Nation in celebrating the importance of reading in our homes and literacy in our ...

On a summer day, sitting near the window of his study at his home in Oxford, England, J.R.R. Tolkien paused while grading papers to scribble the first sentence of his first novel: “In a hole in the ...

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If you just want to cut to the chase and get to the meat of a website, Google Chrome's Reading Mode is going to be a vital tool to get it done. When you enable Reading Mode, you'll only get all the ...

This video covers two breakthroughs that push “mind reading” from fiction into early reality: UT Austin decoding language from brain activity, and Meta decoding visual perception from brain waves. At ...

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

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To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...