Parenting is full of moments that make us laugh, cry, and sometimes wonder, What just happened? For one mom, a seemingly ordinary playtime moment with her baby turned into a viral sensation that left ...

Researchers from UC San Diego got large language models (LLMs) to play the popular fantasy tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, in an attempt to evaluate their performance over time.

This article is featured in the 2026 Winter Carnival Issue. On Wednesday, “The World is Not Silent” — a three-person, trilingual play incorporating English, Vietnamese and both American and Vietnamese ...

You might expect a play set in the repressive and oppressive culture of Iran in 2008 to be a grim portrait of blighted lives and occluded spirits. But Sanaz Toossi’s “English,” which won the Pulitzer ...

Set on a stormy night in a rural pub in northwest Ireland, The Weir follows four local men whose evening of pub banter shifts when a newcomer, Valerie, arrives. What begins with humorous ghost stories ...

Group block play is an early STEM activity commonly used in preschool classrooms. Although research has found that engaging young children in block play helps to promote development of math, spatial, ...

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