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Scientists have found that artificial light can interfere with many insects' ability to position themselves relative to the sky.

'Like moths to a flame'? Here's what's going on with insects and porch lights

Those insects you see flying in crazed circles are trying to keep their backs towards the light because they think that direction is up, new research suggests.

This big university system is embracing AI. Students and faculty aren't all on board

The California State University system offers an early look at what happens when an administration commits to a technology that its own community isn't convinced will improve education.

Ailsa Ostovitz, left, and her mother, Stephanie Rizk, at their home in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. In mid-November, Rizk met with Ostovitz's teachers to discuss accusations that her daughter had used AI to do some of her schoolwork.

Teachers are using software to see if students used AI. What happens when it's wrong?

School districts from Utah to Ohio to Alabama are spending thousands of dollars on these tools, despite research showing the technology is far from reliable.

Printed drawing of cake slice on top of a book colored in with crayon

Is Ohio's K-12 education funding formula unconstitutional?

This election, many Ohioans will be voting on school levies. Education funding is a complicated and controversial topic, but one way to make sense of it is by using a quirky metaphor: it’s like baking a cake.

President Lyndon B. Johnson moves to shake hands with Martin Luther King Jr. while others look on after Johnson signed the federal Voting Rights Act into law at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 6, 1965.

60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the Supreme Court could curtail its remaining protections for minority voters.

News Brief: Impeachment Trial, Capitol Siege, Mexico's Vaccine Plan

Trump's historic impeachment trial begins Tuesday in the Senate. NPR examines more than 200 criminal cases related to the insurrection. Mexico's COVID-19 vaccination plan runs into serious roadblocks.

Sound System parties could make up the new 'Cleveland Sound' this summer. Werd2Jah is one of the artists who will MC at Steel Yard Sound System events.

Shuffle: This Summer, Will 'Steelyard' Become 'The Cleveland Sound?'

Beginning this summer, a new monthly dance party gets underway in Northeast Ohio. It combines elements of Electronic Dance Music, Dub and Reggae . In...

Students in Havana cheer on Wednesday at news that the United Nations General Assembly voted 191-0, with two abstentions, on the Cuba embargo resolution.

For First Time, U.S. Abstains On U.N. Resolution Criticizing Cuba Embargo

The U.S. has always opposed the annual U.N. resolution calling for an end to the U.S. embargo on Cuba, but it abstained this time. The White House opposes the embargo and has taken steps to ease it.

U.S. Abstains From U.N. Vote Calling To End Cuban Embargo

For the first time in a quarter century, the United States is abstaining on a United Nations vote calling for an end to the embargo on Cuba. This comes nearly two years after President Obama and Raul Castro announced a warming of relations between the two nations.

Artist's depiction shows the separation of the Schiaparelli lander from the Trace Gas Orbiter (left) as it heads for the surface of Mars.

Mars Lander May Be Missing, But A Second Spacecraft Is Still Humming Along

As scientists try to figure out what happened to the Schiaparelli lander, which may have crash-landed, a craft known as the Trace Gas Orbiter is orbiting the red planet in search of signs of life.

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