Fluorine is critical for biomedicine. This element can help drug compounds be more potent and last longer in the body, and its radioactive isotope, fluorine-18, powers medical imaging techniques such ...

Heading into the offseason, it was very clear that the Miami Heat needed a significant addition to bolster their struggling offense and another star to support Tyler Herro and Bam Adebayo. Not only ...

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 ...

The digital revolution was supposed to free us. Information at our fingertips, music without scarcity, art unbound from the shackles of plastic discs and corporate gatekeepers. And in a way it did. A ...

As Americans increasingly say the biggest threat in the country is coming from each other, is social media only inflaming that conflict? A New York Times/Siena poll of 1,313 registered voters released ...

During an extraordinary span between 1840 and 1920, America wrestled mightily with what the country’s founders intended when they declared that “all men are created equal.” In his new book, “Born ...

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.

TREATING AMERICANS EQUALLY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order eliminating the use of disparate-impact liability in various contexts to ensure equal treatment under the law.