In “Stay Alive,” Ian Buruma paints a picture of the city dwellers who survived in Germany under the Nazis. By Kevin Peraino Kevin Peraino is the author, most recently, of “A Force So Swift: Mao, ...

After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhibits and an art gallery space in what was an empty storefront along the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan. By ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a joint press conference in Cairo. Stringer/dpa Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas ...

I wrote a book called “Happiness Is a Serious Problem” in 1998, which stressed two important insights. First, happiness isn’t to be awaited but must be pursued. Second, expectations are a major ...

Anthropic calls its chatbot ‘a new kind of entity’ that might be conscious — and it’s opening a huge can of worms. Anthropic calls its chatbot ‘a new kind of entity’ that might be conscious — and it’s ...

A family’s search for a mother who vanished decades ago ended with news that she was “alive and well” — but she still doesn’t want them to know where she is. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

A North Carolina woman who was reported missing more than two decades ago was found alive, bringing a 24-year investigation to a close, authorities said. The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office said ...

A North Carolina mother of three who vanished over two decades ago was found alive and living a new life — leaving her family reeling with questions over her whereabouts, according to authorities and ...

On Friday, she got an answer. “I kind of want to go outside and scream, ‘she’s alive, she’s alive,’” Byrd said. The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Michele Hundley Smith, who disappeared ...

A special set of numbers has formed the backbone of nuclear physics research for decades, and now we finally know how it arises from the quantum mix of nuclear particles and forces. Nearly 80 years ...