Falmouth resident and Harvard professor Dr. John Holdren was awarded the Karl Taylor Compton Medal for his leadership in science and public policy. CAI's Gilda Geist spoke with Dr. Holdren to learn ...

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Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

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Higher education’s maximally inclusive approach to disability is resulting in a two-speed student population and ...

He is a brilliant political talent with dizzying ambitions to change the city. Is he ready for the actual job, though?

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AI allowed Shein not just to outpace everyone but to rewrite the physics of trend creation itself. Yet Zara has managed to ...

For the first time, a group of physicists has written down a warp drive concept that does not ask the universe for impossible ...

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