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The U.S. Department of Education released two new proposed priorities for competitive grant-making on Thursday, shedding more light on what initiatives the administration plans to champion—just as it ...

Long-Term Support release, with features ranging from structured concurrency and compact object headers to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux, is now generally ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

WSJ’s Annie Linskey analyzes the high-stakes meeting earlier this week between President Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders to discuss a potential path to ending Russia ...