A clear science explanation breaks down how lightning forms and why it branches through the air instead of traveling in a straight line to the ground. Real-life Haribo! Ultra-rare two-headed snake ...

Bo Bichette is as enticing a free agent as there is in this year's MLB free agency class. Sure, there are some defensive concerns, but Bichette flat-out rakes, and won't turn 28 years old until March.

Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic ...

WASHINGTON — The winter solstice, the astronomical start of winter, is this weekend. For those north of the equator, the solstice on Sunday, Dec. 21, marks the shortest day and longest night of the ...

Financial and social incentives can nudge doctors away from the operating room. By Sarah Kliff and Bianca Pallaro Sarah Kliff reported from Rochester, N.Y. Bianca Pallaro analyzed historical C-section ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Gov. Mike DeWine’s Property Tax Reform Working Group didn’t settle on a single fix. Instead, it approved a sweeping list of 20 recommendations, ranging from technical fixes to new ...

Almost every enterprise leader I've worked with over the past years has asked a version of the same fundamental question: "How do we maintain operational excellence when our business environment ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.