D.C. public libraries saw record engagement in 2025 with 3.2 million visits and over 6.2 million items borrowed, including books, eBooks, audiobooks, and streaming videos.

The 30-year-old system that classifies hair texture with letters and numbers overlooks science and enforces racial biases.

Now, it’s a bit late for us to become bilingual, but there’s a lot of research around which shows that a second language is great in preventing cognitive decline, and that even if we learn another ...

Google is turning Gemini into a place where you describe the “vibe” of an app and let the AI do the heavy lifting. The ...

It’s a fact that, while many high-profile politicians manage to maintain friendships across the aisle, not every friendship is innocent. Some connections live in the shadows. There are extrinsic ...

Surf's not up in Munich. Workers in the German city on Sunday removed a beam used to recreate a surfable wave in the city's ...

Language learning is often a daunting prospect. Many of us wish we had learned a language to a higher level at school. But ...

Germany’s economy will gradually recover next year and gain momentum in 2027, helped by higher public outlays on defense and infrastructure, the Bundesbank said.

The U.S. announced more than $11 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, which is bracing for a long-feared invasion by China. The ...

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...

The wrangling about the German spelling reform in the 1990s could hardly have been more acrimonious. What caused this heated row in the German press and public administration, in schools and even in ...

Belfast digital agency co-founders Ciaran and Michelle Connolly build content network spanning education, business, tourism, food, and motoring Create genuinely useful content that helps people, and ...