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new video loaded: SpaceX’s Starship Malfunctions During 8th Test Flight transcript Back transcript SpaceX’s Starship Malfunctions During 8th Test Flight While the Starship’s booster successfully returned to the launchpad, the upper-stage spacecraft failed in space and lost several engines and attitude control, tumbling in space. We got the [unintelligible]. [Unintelligible] What an incredible sight to … Read more

L. Clifford Davis, a civil rights lawyer who led efforts to desegregate high schools in Texas, sometimes in the face of mob violence, hostility from state politicians and threats on his life, died on Feb. 15 in Fort Worth. He was 100. His daughter Karen Davis confirmed the death, in a nursing facility. Although the … Read more

On Feb. 8, Colette Delawalla, a graduate student in psychology at Emory University, nervously announced to the online world that she was planning a national protest in defense of science. “I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world,” she wrote in a post on Bluesky, … Read more

For three decades, “college for all” was an American rallying cry. The goal inspired a generation of educators, offered a north star to students and united political figures from George W. Bush to Bernie Sanders. Thousands of new K-12 schools were founded to achieve this ambitious vision, often focused on guiding low-income students toward bachelor’s … Read more

In the early weeks of the Trump administration’s push to slash funding that colleges and universities rely on, grants and contracts had been cut and, in a few cases, researchers had been laid off. In recent days, the fiscal pain has come to students. At the University of Pennsylvania, administrators have asked departments in the … Read more

Bryant Lin estaba de pie frente a su clase en Stanford en septiembre, probablemente una de las últimas que impartiría. Con solo 50 años y no fumador, le habían diagnosticado cáncer de pulmón en estadio 4 cuatro meses antes. La enfermedad es terminal, y Lin calculó que le quedaban unos dos años antes de que … Read more

The police in Baton Rouge, La., are investigating whether a hazing episode at a fraternity may have played a role in the recent death of a 20-year-old Southern University student, university officials said Wednesday. The student, Caleb Wilson, of New Orleans, died at 12:27 a.m. on Feb. 27, the East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office said. … Read more

The Trump administration said Wednesday it would use a law typically meant to investigate racist practices within police departments to examine whether the University of California system had engaged in a pattern or practice of antisemitic discrimination. The move by the Justice Department comes two days after other federal agencies announced a review of Columbia … Read more

The women’s basketball coach stood atop a ladder on Sunday night, carefully cutting down the last of the net after Haskell Indian Nations University won the league championship. The scene is a familiar one at this time of year in college basketball. But the celebration in Lawrence, Kan., where the man who invented the sport … Read more

Linda McMahon’s first act as secretary of education was to instruct staff to prepare for its “final mission,” her clearest indication yet of how she will work to fulfill President Trump’s goal of shuttering the department. Ms. McMahon’s missive, sent via email shortly after she was sworn in on Monday, was just the latest thunderclap … Read more