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NPR's science podcast Short Wave talk about how ultrarunning affects the body, the trend of intermittent fasting and how to protect people's mental health when they talk with chatbots.

Students are losing some interest in computer science broadly but gaining interest in AI-specific majors and courses.

A s high school students begin to consider college applications, summer breaks are spent either exploring or building on an area of interest. Let’s take a look at leading STEM programmes in India and ...

Yale removed Professor David Gelernter from teaching while reviewing emails showing he described a student’s appearance in a ...

Athletes competing in this year’s Winter Olympic Games in Milan will do so surrounded by a complex web of AI-enabled cameras, ...

It was once a degree to some of the highest-paying jobs in the world, but now the University of California is seeing a drop in enrollment for computer science. Part of the reason is that tech ...

Yale students ranked computer science professor David Gelernter as the worst in the department since 2020, according to internal course reviews.

Two big dates on the economic calendar this week will give crucial clues about how the job market, and the consumer market, are doing. First, the January jobs report — which usually comes out on the ...

Oak Ridge hosted the National Nuclear Science Week in October 2025. The city is becoming a hub for nuclear energy, attracting numerous new companies. The week's events aimed to connect companies with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Matt Mullins, marketing and communications manager for the American Museum of Science and Energy Foundation, led the effort to ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the mysterious structure of ice, parents' heightened tolerance for disgust, and how penguins are adapting to climate change. Time ...