The Bachmeier brothers came to BYU this past spring with one goal in mind: to play football together for a winning program.

As 2025 wraps up, The Associated Press has curated a list of memorable stories and enjoyable reads published this year.

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

Celebrate Pennsylvania’s culinary history with regional dishes tied to towns where tradition, craftsmanship, and flavor come together.

Hollowed out. That’s how I frequently described West Virginia University during the nine years I worked there before leaving this summer. There was a library, but it bought fewer and fewer books. The ...

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As people age, many develop presbyopia — age-related farsightedness that makes it hard to read things at close range — and may turn to reading glasses. But new research suggests another option may be ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology released new guidance on building end-to-end zero-trust architectures (ZTA), providing security teams with practical, real-world examples of how to ...

Guillory (Professing Criticism), an English professor at New York University, serves up an esoteric examination of what it means to give a text a “close reading.” He notes that from the 1600s through ...

The invention of close reading. By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art ...