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Everybody develops presbyopia as they age – a difficulty in focusing on near objects and text – and often have to resort to reading glasses. However, the solution might be as simple as using special eye drops two or three times a day. A retrospective study of 766 patients presented on September 14 at the 43rd Congress of the European Society …

Astrologer and Cut columnist Claire Comstock-Gay reads the stars as Madame Clairevoyant. Pippa Middleton, a Virgo. Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Getty Images The moon spends the first part of the day in Aries, then moves into stubborn Taurus in the late afternoon. In the evening, it squares off with Pluto — emotions are running high, and even the smallest comments …

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to results released Tuesday from an exam known as the nation’s report card. Eighth-grade students also lost significant ground in science skills, according to the results from …

New test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card, show eighth-graders’ science scores have fallen 4 points since 2019 and 12th-graders’ math and reading scores have fallen 3 points in the same time period. The tests were administered between January and March 2024. This is the first NAEP score release since …

12th Grade Reading Skills Hit a New Low  The New York Times Students’ Skills — and Interest — in Science Tumble in First Post-COVID Test  yahoo.com Twelfth-Grade Math and Reading Scores in U.S. Hit New Low  The Wall Street Journal Can you read this? US low-literacy crisis is costing us $2 trillion per year  The Hill US high school students lose ground in math …

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Postdoctoral scholar Erin Kunz holds a microelectrode array. Surgically implanted in the brain’s surface layer, the array records neural activity patterns directly from the brain to a computer. Credit: Jim Gensheimer Our inner voice has always been a sanctuary — a private psychological space where half-formed sentences float safely between thought and speech. But what happens when machines can hear …

Researchers identify a key pathway linking socioeconomic status to children’s reading skills  PsyPost Source link

When actress Jaime Ray Newman was preparing to audition for The Hunting Wives, she felt a wave of excitement she hadn’t experienced in nearly a year. It was the first role she was going out for since the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes, and after reading the pilot, she was eager to land the part of Callie, the fierce sheriff’s …