Setti Warren was the first popularly elected African American mayor in Massachusetts. Warren, who served two terms as Newton's mayor, was a naval intelligence specialist in Iraq and worked for ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Wearing a superhero costume, actor and filmmaker DezBaa’ emerged from the voting booth Friday afternoon after ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Imagine zooming into matter at the quantum scale, where tiny particles can interact in more than a trillion configurations at once. If that sounds complicated, it is: Physicists often ...

In the race to develop artificial intelligence, tech giants are building data centers that guzzle up water. That has led to problems for people who live nearby. In the race to develop artificial ...

There are one too many Jordons at Chapel Hill these days, according to Cam Newton. The former Heisman and MVP-winning quarterback called out North Carolina’s new head football coach, Bill Belichick, ...

Every day, researchers search for optimal solutions. They might want to figure out where to build a major airline hub. Or to determine how to maximize return while minimizing risk in an investment ...

Reservoir numerical simulation is an important tool and method for the reasonable and efficient development of shale reservoirs. Accurate description of three-dimensional fractures in shale reservoir ...

China Nuclear Power Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., Shen Zhen, China The thermal–hydraulic dynamics in containment are governed by a system of stiff ordinary differential equations (ODEs). A ...