Source: OECD, PISA 2025 Results (Volume I).Outside the top 15, the ranking runs to 91 participating countries and economies. Australia sits at 17th with 478 points. Germany and Sweden are tied for ...

For months, a sizable group of University of California professors have been demanding the reinstatement of standardized test requirements in the undergraduate admissions policy. Their main reason? A ...

Jacob Coxon had fewer than a hundred followers on X when he announced he was quitting Anthropic last week. Within days, his posts had been viewed more than 170 million times, and the bosses of the ...

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CMS is finishing work on a rule that would limit what states can route to providers through Medicaid managed care. The agency proposed it in May, closed comments in July, and Administrator Mehmet Oz ...

The Daily Show has exposed the wonky math behind Donald Trump’s bonkers promise. At Wednesday’s Republican midterm convention in Dallas, the 80-year-old president promised to give $5,000 to every ...

At Wednesday's Republican midterm convention in Dallas, the 80-year-old president promised to give $5,000 to every adult in the U.S. if Republicans manage to maintain their position in November's ...

OpenAI says an experimental system involving about 10,000 AI agents produced a proposed solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem in 88 hours. The proof argues that a fluid vortex ...

OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents solved the Navier-Stokes math problem in 88 hours. NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster says OpenAI may have used his unpublished work. OpenAI denies wrongdoing but admits ...

Meet Soborno Isaac Bari, the 12-year-old American math prodigy who impressed Obama at 4, gave physics lectures at 7, and scored a perfect 1500 on the SAT at 11 By ...