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A new report from the Century Foundation found that state and institutional grant aid too often flows to higher-income students who don’t need it, while low-income…

Supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) in England will cost the government an extra £3bn a year by 2029 if the system is…

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright listens during a press conference this spring at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP/AP hide caption toggle caption…

Last week, the National Institutes of Health finally got some good news. A Senate subcommittee voted, with support from both parties, to increase the agency’s $48…

Mysterious Illness Decimating Sea Stars Finally IdentifiedA devastating bacterium has decimated populations of sunflower sea stars, predators that play a crucial role in their environmentBy Andrea…

Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms agreed on Thursday to settle claims seeking $8bn for the damage they allegedly caused…

Meta’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has said the social media giant will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on building huge AI data centres in the US.The…

As you’ve probably heard by now, the “big, beautiful” bill currently making its way through Congress is wildly unpopular. It’s unpopular among voters. It’s unpopular among…

More patients may die as a result of plans drawn up by the Trump administration to cut billions of dollars from the National Cancer Institute (NCI),…

Kevin PeacheyCost of living correspondentGetty ImagesStruggling households owe billions of pounds in unpaid council tax, but bills are expected to keep rising in the years ahead.Newly-published…