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Why do the works of Jane Austen still hold so much appeal 250 years after her birth? We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor.

If you need a unique, locally produced gift for a bird lover this season, look for my “The Best of Bird Banter” book. See ...

Vector is a minimalist take on Spotlight that uses AI to and the gives a conversational twist to the whole experience. It's ...

The competition is open to companies, universities or R&D centres with a compelling concept or collaborative innovation to ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

Katherine’s phone rang, and, because it was Adrian calling, everyone went quiet, trying to hear the famous actor’s voice.

In all fairness, the news is depressing; users are constantly bombarded with videos of forests burning, global warming ...

NASA is quietly transforming the UFO debate into a structured scientific project, treating unexplained sightings as data problems instead of late-night curiosities. The agency now talks about ...

The Americans With Disabilities Act, passed in 1990, was meant to make life fairer for people like Stein. The law required public and private institutions to provide reasonable accommodations to ...

The Stevens Literacy Center has been renamed the Stevens Center for Literacy and STEM Education, reflecting its expanded ...

The State Department of Education has assigned the state a D grade for academic achievement in public schools but a C in ...