A report about declining math preparation at UC San Diego has been generating hysterical headlines in national news outlets. The steep drops in math performance of incoming students, highlighted in a ...

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You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

Life’s missing piece might just be a dog’s goofy love. President Trump announces seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker After winning his first Oscar, Tom Cruise kept repeating the same 2-word phrase. It’s ...

The theater that drew acclaim last year for “Les Misérables” is hoping Paris can accept a new “Americano-French musical.” The theater that drew acclaim last year for “Les Misérables” is hoping Paris ...

When the New York Giants fired Brian Daboll in November, they appeared to declare, in swift and merciless fashion, that it was time for more discipline. The pileup of losses was the primary catalyst ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Filmmaking brothers Josh and Benny Safdie are on their nerve-fried version of an exercise kick. While their buzziest earlier movies as a duo followed characters on the margins of society—the addicts ...

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Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Abstract: The recently developed approach to motion planning in graphs of convex sets (GCS) provides an efficient framework for computing shortest-distance collision-free paths using convex ...