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Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction is proposing a "Portrait of a Graduate" initiative to focus on life skills. Critics express concern that this new focus may detract from improving poor ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

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The planar Hall effect is a tabletop diagnostic tool for special quantum properties useful in basic research and technological applications. Or so it was thought, because careful calculation by Kobe ...

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