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Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

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An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human.

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A macroalgae called sargassum is spoiling coastlines from Cancún to Tulum. Here’s how researchers and resorts are combating the noxious bloom. Masses of rotting seaweed blanket the Fundadores Park ...

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Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly "conversion table" that works on a laptop and returns results within hours.