We have always heard a familiar line from our elders that one must have a purpose in life. Yet, many of us take this as a burden or chore, and often try to escape such questions and discussions.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is best known for being the mind behind the hit TV show Finding Your Roots, but when he's not surprising celebrities with family secrets, he spends his time with his wife and ...

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 ...

The dreaded root canal may be necessary for good oral health, but it could also potentially lower inflammation and improve blood sugar and cholesterol, according to a new study. Researchers from ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of three stories following a Standard-Examiner editorial board interview with Ogden City Management Services Director Lisa Stout and David Sawyer, deputy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. America Ferrera learns that one of her cousins is director Ava DuVernay in the upcoming 12th season of Finding Your Roots with ...

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 ...

Brent’s Method is a robust, efficient algorithm for finding zeros of functions, combining bisection, secant, and inverse quadratic interpolation. It is widely used in scientific computing. Adding ...

Stage and screen stars and Oklahoma natives Kristin Chenoweth and Tracy Letts, along with former Oklahoma City Thunder star Chris Paul, will be featured on the upcoming season of "Finding Your Roots." ...