Finding Your Roots returns, telling stories that illuminate America’s fundamental diversity. Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for Season 12 on PBS, exploring the family trees of ...

The holiday season. The festive period. Yuletide. This time of year has all kinds of names and bynames, from simple catch-all generalizations to age-old terms with centuries of history. So Christmas ...

This video explores how Euler connected pi, square roots, and one half using factorials, revealing the deep relationships behind seemingly unrelated mathematical constants. Through clear explanations ...

Discover a fast and powerful calculus-based method for finding square roots with impressive accuracy. This explanation shows how derivatives and iterative approximation can be used to quickly zero in ...

EUSTIS, Fla. — It all started with grief—and turned into something much bigger. After losing her parents in 2000, Margaret Reese-Williams started exploring her family history to honor their memory. A ...

Losing your phone can leave you in panic mode, especially when the battery dies. The good news is that both Apple and Android offer built-in tools that help you track a missing device even when it is ...

This breakthrough allows researchers to visualize where individual genes are active at the cellular level—information that has long been missing due to technical limitations in tea biology. By ...

With the addition of fishing in Enshrouded's Wake of the Water update, there comes a need for Fishing Bait. But there are different types of bait, which can be either collected from the various biomes ...

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 ...

*Season 12 of “Finding Your Roots” returns to PBS, with host Henry Louis Gates Jr. guiding celebrities as they uncover their ancestral stories. Lizzo describes one revelation as “scandaloso,” while ...

Move over, Eiffel Tower. Step aside, Sistine Chapel. Instead of heading to well-known tourist destinations, many travelers are exploring tiny towns and remote villages in a bid to connect with their ...