All my life, visits to the library were relatively transactional. I picked out books as a kid then, later, CDs as teenager and took them home to obsess over for a finite period. I returned them and ...

Imagine working for a company where you notice a lot of little, annoying problems that could be easily fixed if management would just listen to the employees. Would you be really annoyed it management ...

Srinivasa Ramanujan grew up in southern India with almost no formal education, but his mind never stopped creating mathematics. Using nothing but a single outdated textbook, he taught himself advanced ...

Prosecutors on Long Island say they’ve arrested and charged a suspect for the 1984 rape and murder of 16-year-old Theresa Fusco. They say a smoothie cup discarded by the suspect had DNA that matched ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

You probably don’t need more time. By Jancee Dunn When I look back on all the major decisions I’ve dithered over, I could scream. It took me a decade to commit to becoming a parent. I wavered for a ...

Most American voters believe the United States is too politically divided to solve problems, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena University released Thursday. The poll found that 64 ...

Europe’s economy relies on natural ecosystems that are dying faster than ever while the European Union cuts the very rules that protect them, scientists caution. “Political realities across the world ...

A sticky, toxic by-product that has long plagued renewable energy production may soon become a valuable resource, according to a new review published in Biochar. When biomass such as crop residues, ...

“The beauty of this method is that we solve a problem without creating a new one. By turning waste into a raw material that can actively reduce greenhouse gases, we make an environmental issue part of ...