2+ hour, 11+ min ago  (708+ words) Academic recovery after the pandemic is unfolding along two sharply different paths in Massachusetts. Students in wealthy school districts are nearing their 2019 performance, according to an annual report released Wednesday. At the same time, students in low-income districts remain far…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (127+ words) WBUR 2025 was a year packed with scientific discovery, with stories as large as the galaxy and as small as the DNA from a 24-million-year-old rhinoceros tooth (albeit an extinct one). In between, there were triumphs, including advances in transplanting animal…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1934+ words) Mathematician Eugenia Cheng wants us to rethink our relationship to math " and equality. We hear how different paths lead to identical outcomes in math, and how that can help us all in real life. Eugenia Cheng, mathematician. Scientist-in-residence at the…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (588+ words) Massachusetts students continue to lag behind pre-pandemic performance in standardized testing, according to the latest MCAS results released on Monday. Overall, about 42% of the state's students met testing expectations " compared to about half of all students before the pandemic. The…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (103+ words) Some patients who've suffered from oral cancers or neurological diseases like ALS are starting to use the technology to regain natural voices that they lost. Artificial intelligence-generated voices are being used in customer service, media and entertainment. But now some…...