How much do you really know about your ancestors? Maybe you know what countries they came from, what languages they spoke or what tribes they belonged to. But the details that help us understand ...

After retrieving the data archive in the Untended Garden quest, Celeste now needs you to find a seed vault in Buried City as part of the Arc Raiders The Root of the Matter quest. For this one, you’re ...

America Ferrera got the surprise of a lifetime on Tuesday’s (January 6) Season 12 premiere of Finding Your Roots. Carlos’ disappearance and death left a lot of question marks in Ferrera’s life, she ...

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for its 12th season on PBS. Over the course of ten new episodes, Gates and his team use genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis ...

Henry Louis Gates explores the remarkable roots of actors Edward Norton and Julia Roberts—using DNA analysis and genealogical detective work to travel generations into the past, tracing lineages that ...

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 ...

A new medical study found that the wide-ranging symptoms of Gulf War illness appear to be caused by a failure of cells to produce adequate energy, bringing experts a step closer to finding the root ...

Understanding plant root systems is vital to improving crop productivity and climate adaptation, yet their complex underground structures remain difficult to characterize. Conventional imaging methods ...

When a Russian émigré documented the closing of a soul food restaurant in Washington, D.C., he discovered much in common with his own history. By Alexander Nazaryan Times Insider explains who we are ...

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 ...

A local TV station owner has changed his offer to sell a building to the Finding Our Roots African American Museum. The new offer is for a smaller building at a cost of $1 million, down from a ...