Like many people, I'm hopelessly addicted to my phone. I can't help randomly picking it up throughout the day; placing it ...

The screenings give teachers and parents early indications of areas that can help children learn to read and could point to a need for further evaluation.

A 2023 California law requires all students in kindergarten, first and second grade to be screened for risk of reading ...

Horror Games Hideo Kojima wanted to "make you s*** your pants" with the now-canceled Silent Hills, and now he's trying to do it again over 10 years later with his new horror game OD: "It's really ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. For this package, we’ve been asking authors and illustrators to discuss the decisions influencing a single page or ...

About 20 years ago, United Methodist laywoman Gayle McKuin Fiser and her pastor, Betsy Singleton Snyder, discovered they had a mutual love of dogs. What’s more, they realized lots of folks at their ...

THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — The Department of Health established radiation exposure limits in January, limiting the allowable dosage to 0.25 millisieverts. Thurston County Sheriff Derek Sanders says the ...

In “The Waterbearers,” Sasha Bonét weaves her matrilineal history into a larger struggle for survival and self-knowledge. By Martha Southgate Martha Southgate is the author of four novels, most ...

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Hyperscape Capture, a new app for existing Quest 3 and Quest 3S VR headsets, can scan your space in minutes. It's available now. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable ...

Although today’s Meta Connect developer conference was largely about new smart glasses, the social networking company did announce a handful of metaverse updates during Wednesday’s keynote. Of these, ...

Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits and pieces of us that are performing miracles on a daily basis." Take the human heart, for instance. If ...