Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.

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Inflation and a pullback in government assistance have resulted in more people having trouble paying their bills, a nonprofit found in its annual report.

Models of the insect’s nervous system have been trained to solve a Rubik’s Cube, play video games and even parallel park a car.