Science sleuths are stepping up efforts to detect bogus science papers. This includes building tools that comb through ...

Two longstanding NYC area newspapers, including one immortalized in "The Sopranos," are vanishing from newsstands, part of a ...

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Helen Dickerson was a Detroiter and longtime Free Press reader who lived to be 108. She loved her family, playing piano and ...

The Student Committee on Education released its 2025 white paper offering Penn recommendations in six areas: Academics; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; One University; Wellness; West Philadelphia; ...

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Eric Reinhart, a political anthropologist, social psychiatrist, and psychoanalytic clinician who wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times regarding Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Secretary of ...

A moving story of a woman finding solace through crafting paper stars during her time in a mental hospital has deeply ...

We at Planet Money are constantly reading the work of economists and other social scientists to glean ideas, evidence and ...

The percentage of eighth graders who have “below basic” reading skills according to NAEP was the largest it has been in the ...

Children continue to lose ground on reading skills, according to the nation's report card. We need to take a look at ...

In the old days, consuming news took a little work. People bought or subscribed to a local newspaper, and often a statewide or regional paper as well. (My folks got our hometown paper and the ...