The US has seen a significant increase in student absenteeism since the pandemic closed schools four years ago with an estimated 26 of public school students considered chronically absent in the last school year up from 15 before the pandemic according to data from 40 states...

Oppenheimer the film about the American scientist who invented the nuclear weapons that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 79 years ago opened in Japanese theaters March 29 to mixed reactions and strong emotions...

Xiaojun Tom Wang grew up in the Chinese province of Shanxi the worlds largest coal producer Each year more than a billion tons of coal are dug out of Shanxis mountains and the impacts are devastating from massive landslides to damaged cultural sites and threats to hum...

Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers now on the board of ChatGPT developer OpenAI believes that while AI has the potential to revolutionize the economy its impact will take time to materialize However Summers maintains that AI could be the biggest economic developmen...

Clean up your property with the help of these expert-recommended gas and electric wood chippers...

An anonymous reader shares a report Mutterings of alarm are emerging from the cloisters of Red Hat after the worlds largest management consultancy was hired to help the IBM subsidiary focus engineers on their highest-value work Red Hat confirmed the partnership with McKinsey ...

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The loss of Baltimores Francis Scott Key Bridge after a cargo ship collision will teach engineers how to design structures better able to withstand disasters...

An invisible force has long eluded detection within CERNs hallsuntil now...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from GamingOnLinux After repeatedly suffering issues with scam apps making it onto the Snap Store Canonical maker of Ubuntu Linux have now decided to manually look over submissions Ive covered the issues with the Snap Store a few times now...

Carrying a baby creates some of the same epigenetic patterns on DNA seen in older people...

The epic poem guided the researchers to vessels that time forgot...

As a new wave of Americans rushes into Mexico City their presence is both an annoyance and a sign of optimism Where Mexico was once denigrated as poor and crime-ridden more outsiders are waking up to its profound worth and appeal...

After 137 years modern explorers have uncovered the long-lost Milwaukee from its aquatic grave...

The inability to process numeric information dyscalculia is still poorly understood Finding therapies may require looking beyond the numbers...

Just how rare are total solar eclipses which require a perfect alignment of the sun and moon...

Figuring out whether there are more stars in the universe than sand grains on Earths seashores requires mathand imagination...

Lyle Smith reports via StorageReviewcom Proxmox has introduced a new import wizard for Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) aiming to simplify the migration process for importing VMware ESXi VMs This new feature comes at an important time in the industry as it aims to ease the t...

Mucus is a miracle of evolution and some researchers are trying to re-create what nature makes naturally...

Apple has sued its former employee Andrew Aude for leaking information about more than a half-dozen Apple products and policies including its then-unannounced Journal app and Vision Pro headset product development policies strategies for regulatory compliance employee headcou...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times Theyre vast expanses that can be as big as towns open landfills where household waste ends up whether its vegetable scraps or old appliances These landfills also belch methane a powerful planet-warming gas on av...

The Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan has won a 15 billion conditional federal loan to reopen after being closed for decommissioning in 2022 Canary Media reports If the loan is granted (subject to Holtec meeting closing conditions) and the 800-megawatt reactor located on La...

Tobias Mann reports via The Register Cloud server provider Vultr has rapidly revised its terms-of-service after netizens raised the alarm over broad clauses that demanded the perpetual irrevocable royalty-free rights to customer content The red tape was updated in January...