While designed to make vehicles greener, safer and increasingly convenient, they can be flawed or totally redundant, thus ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Microsoft has officially retired the traditional phone-based activation system for Windows and Office that served as a reliable fallback for users for over two decades. Indeed, the "slui 4" command ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Alexander Batthyány writes that “a good scientific theory should predict and explain what is observed. Mr. Pinker’s materialism does neither” (Letters, Nov. 6). Yet a biologically plausible hypothesis ...

When we focus on healthcare outcomes, it’s much easier to find clear areas of agreement about how to build a new, healthier system. When it comes to creating a national healthcare system that truly ...

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) to put hundreds of banned books back on the shelves at schools for military families. Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ...

Windows 10 product usually works with Windows 11, but the problems occur if your Windows 10 license is an OEM license (tied to original device hardware and not transferable) rather than a Retail ...

Amazon released a new firmware update for the 11th and 12th-generation Kindle e-readers last week. It has removed one of the last ways that users could back up Kindle books and remove the encryption ...

The Burlington County Library System has reported significant increases in library usage one year after implementing a fine-free policy Checkouts rose 36% and thousands of new library cards were ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Oct. 13, 2025. Click here for that audio. More than 350,000 American kids are now wards of the state — that means the government has assumed the parental ...

Susan Forde receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is affiliated with Griffith University, and serves as Griffith University's representative on The Conversation (Australia) ...