New test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card, show eighth-graders' science scores have fallen 4 points since 2019 and ...

On a special episode (first released on August 27, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Is coolness just a vibe—or something deeper? A new global study spanning 12 countries finds surprising common traits ...

If you’ve walked down the wellness aisle at your local supermarket recently, or scrolled the latest wellness trends on social media, you’ve likely heard about creatine. Creatine is a compound our body ...

One town’s effort to make pricey items accessible and encourage people to buy less stuff seems to be catching on. Credit... Supported by By Cara Buckley Photographs by Ryan David Brown Reporting from ...

Bharathidasan University celebrated the 133rd National Librarian’s Day recently commemorating the birth anniversary of S.R. Ranganathan hailed as the “Father of Library Science” in India. The event ...

Living to see 100 is a major feat that has a common thread. Recent studies of centenarians – people who are in their 100s – have found that they suffer from fewer diseases overall, develop them more ...

Managing a library manually takes a lot of time, effort, and paperwork. A Library Management System (LMS) solves this problem. It is used by the libraries to increase the workflow and reduce human ...

A recent 8.8-magnitude earthquake triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific, forcing cruise ships into emergency mode. While deep ocean waters offer relative safety, ships near coastlines face ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and learn what they really are. By Elizabeth Preston In P.D. Eastman’s classic ...

The electromagnetic force is one of the bedrock forces of nature and is easily the most important one to our modern world, even as most of us probably take it for granted. As one of the four ...

“But truth’s a menace, science is a public danger,” said Mustapha Mond, the “Controller” in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. “We have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.” At first glance, ...

Donald Trump’s administration is attempting a hostile takeover of the Library of Congress — an agency that is part of the legislative branch and functions as its research arm in addition to ...