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Mo Marie Lauyanne Kouame, 18, dreams of being an aerospace engineer and building spacecraft. This fall, she applied to MIT, Princeton, and Columbia. For one college essay, she wrote about being ...

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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Sergio Mendoza Hochmann / Getty; Pierre Michaud / Gamma-Rapho / Getty. With respect to Andrews, in the midst of all this—the testosterone-addled executive branch ...

At a birthday party for Elon Musk in northern California wine country, late at night after cocktails, he and longtime friend Larry Page fell into an argument about the safety of artificial ...

Reading levels dropped to historic lows during the pandemic. Now parents, teachers and tech companies are hoping AI can help solve America’s literacy crisis. America’s literacy challenge has been ...

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Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

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Morgan Wallen just gave his fans some exciting news. On June 13, the country singer, 32, revealed the setlist for his upcoming tour, “I’m the Problem,” and it features hits like, “Whiskey Glasses,” ...

There is a heated price war in China's EV market. BYD just unleashed a new round of intense price cuts. Tesla has problems outside of China, too, such as Europe. Along the way, there have been ...