On the first day of Black History Month, the College Board released a revised curriculum for Advanced Placement coursework in African American Studies in apparent response to criticism from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The board’s MORE
A handful of congressional Democrats have encouraged federal probes into Abbott’s handling of the contamination of formula products, which ultimately triggered a major recall and shut down a key plant located in Sturgis, Mich. last MORE
The third Monday of January is said to be the saddest day of the year as folks grapple with holiday debt, failed New Year’s resolutions and dreary days. Known as “Blue Monday,” it falls on MORE
A cash flow cascading from the heavens is a provisionary but promising harvest from asteroid mining. It’s already a “claim jumping” enterprise with assertions that billions, trillions, even quadrillions of dollars are looming in deep MORE
More than a hundred new designs discovered in and around Peru’s ancient Nazca plain and surrounding areas could bring new information to light about the mysterious pre-Columbian artworks that have intrigued scientists and visitors for MORE
Researchers hope the vaccine, which blocked the drug from entering rats’ brains, could help reduce overdoses in humans A research team led by the University of Houston has developed a vaccine targeting the dangerous synthetic MORE
Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy have reached a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. For the first time ever in a laboratory, researchers were able to generate more energy from fusion reactions than they used MORE
The United States has seen an uptick in COVID-19, the flu, and RSV since the Thanksgiving holiday. In fact, “the country is currently red-hot with lots of fevers, sore throats, and coughs popping up from MORE
A documentary crew searching the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida for a World War II-era wreckage uncovered a very different historical artifact. While digging in the seabed, crew members from MORE
A northern California man has claimed that his home was destroyed by a meteorite on Friday, after several witnesses reportedly saw a ball of light descending from the sky. “I heard a big bang. I started to MORE
Sunday: Spring Forward, Fall Back. . . This weekend, I’ll be waking up to one of my favorite days of the year: a government-sanctioned 25-hour Sunday. Forget birthdays, forget my anniversary; heck, forget the magic MORE
Griffith University researchers have demonstrated that a bacteria can travel through the olfactory nerve in the nose and into the brain in mice, where it creates markers that are a tell-tale sign of Alzheimer’s disease. MORE
It’s an idea that reflects the real Republican plan: Education is about social control, not learning Dixon complained that her daughter had checked out a book “about having two different homes” and how the very MORE
People who reported experiencing side effects to the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines such as fever, chills or muscle pain tended to have a greater antibody response following vaccination, according to new research. The researchers MORE
To date, 199 people have had their heads and bodies cryopreserved at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation facility in hopes of being revived later. By preserving bodies at below-freezing temperatures, Alcor’s goal is “restoring good health with medical technology MORE
From its perch one million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescopehas peered deep into our solar system to capture images of Neptune. These new views show seven of the distant planet’s 14 known moons, but MORE
The purple tomato is considered a genetically-modified organism (GMO) because it’s made with recombinant DNA technology, in which genes from another organism are added. The purple tomato may mark a turning point for genetically modified MORE
The Navy says it has more UFO videos. It doesn’t want to share them. The U.S. Navy says that releasing any additional UFO videos would “harm national security” and told a government transparency website that all MORE
The story of America’s rabid raccoons begins in Florida. Rabies was once rarely found in raccoons, but in the ’50s, an outbreak began spreading from the Sunshine State. It diffused first to neighboring states and then MORE
Watch live as our mega Moon rocket launches an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a six-week mission around the Moon and back to Earth. During #Artemis I, Orion will lift off aboard the Space Launch System MORE
The right is pushing an aggressive attack on schools — but teachers and students are pushing back It is back to school time in America and the 2022-2023 school year undoubtedly is shaping up to MORE
A Brooklyn Public Library initiative to combat state book bans has landed an Oklahoma teacher in trouble, after a parent there complained her promotion of the resource was itself a violation of state law. Summer MORE
Hundreds of dictionaries earmarked for donation from a Venice Rotary Club sit collecting dust, precluded from being given to Sarasota County students. Even dictionaries aren’t safe from the Sarasota Schools book freeze. Ahead of the MORE
The child may have contracted the infection while swimming in a river. A child in Nebraska is suspected to have died from a rare case of brain-eating amoeba, health officials said Wednesday. If confirmed, it will MORE
Even with the new COVID variants you’re 6 times less likely to die from Covid if you’re vaccinated with 2 shots, and 9 times less likely to die of Covid if you’re boosted, and 29 MORE