A new report explores the possibility of a baby bond program to help children in poverty in Maryland. The report, released by Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman at the request of the Maryland ...
Second Harvest Northland has teamed up with schools across 15 counties to fight this problem head-on. Every week, volunteers pack bags filled with nutritious food and quietly place them in students’ ...
In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...
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BISMARCK — North Dakota leaders are facing an abrupt deadline to apply for a huge amount of federal funding that emerged from a program created by Congress’ recent passage of House Resolution 1, known ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...
Giovanna Monteiro, a Madison Park Technical Vocational High School junior, shows code used to program an autonomous robot at a showcase at The Possible Zone, Aug. 21. The showcase, in which 21 Boston ...
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive its biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Erin McCanlies was ...
SOPPENG, Indonesia, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 million years ago on islands between ...
Curbing climate change was never going to be easy. The fundamental energy balance of a planet cannot be changed overnight; nor can a fossil-fuel-based economy that serves billions of people be ...
ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Human Services announced Friday it will move to terminate a housing stabilization program recently flagged for possible fraud by federal investigators. The ...