From smartphones to net zero, there has been no shortage of innovative ideas in the past 25 years, which is why we have taken ...

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November 18, 2025 - As companies lean into AI innovation to revolutionize a wide range of industries, they will encounter opportunities to secure patents on their advances. Machine-learning-based ...

Tests reveal what students missed, but that feedback often comes after the prime opportunity to reteach has passed. Micro-assessments attempt to avoid that problem by surfacing gaps in real time.

As part of a special issue this November, The Atlantic tasked writers and historians with looking at the country’s founding era to find out what America’s political thinkers valued at its beginning.

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I know you’ve seen charcuterie boards all over the internet and maybe at get-togethers you’ve attended. They make ...

In June 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l, establishing a now-infamous two-step, judicially-imposed test for patent subject-matter eligibility that narrowed the ...

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