Next month will mark the 40th anniversary of my debut as a columnist for North Carolina newspapers. Over the decades, I’ve gotten quite a few things wrong. I’ve misdiagnosed policy ...

North Carolina lawmakers are quietly loading the state budget with money to hunt down and tackle PFAS contamination around fire stations, a targeted move meant to protect both firefighters and nearby ...

Researchers have developed a way to program human cells to perform calculations and make autonomous decisions, similar to how ...

Welcome to WP Intelligence’s AI & Tech Brief, where we examine the transformative technology of artificial intelligence at ...

High-quality early childhood programs, such as Head Start, can cultivate skills such as phonological awareness to provide young children with the building blocks needed to succeed in the K-12 system.

US presidents have attended private liberal arts colleges, large state research schools, and private Christian colleges. See ...

Learning to program in C on an online platform can provide structured learning and a certification to show along with your resume. Learning C can still be useful in 2026, especially if you want to ...

Language immersion programs abroad are becoming one of the fastest-growing forms of slow travel, with more and more adults and retirees booking trips that combine daily language classes, cultural ...

SUFFERN — Kindergartners sit in a circle sounding out new spelling words. "Mug," the children repeat and they spell it out. In the class next door at RP Connor Elementary, students in their partner ...

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...

The distant moon Pandora from James Cameron’s Avatar films is a feast of sci-fi world-building. Dragonlike creatures prowl the skies. Supersmart whalelike beasts write poetry under the sea. And a ...