American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch which the award-giving body said could pav...

In game theory, in which mathematical models study decision-making, there are two kinds of games — finite and infinite. A finite game involves known players, clear rules, distinct objectives and...

A fourth chartered flight carrying civilians from Afghanistan to Qatar since US forces withdrew last month left Kabul on Sunday with more than 230 passengers, including Afghans, Americans and European...

About 1,000 people, including Americans, have been stuck in Afghanistan for days awaiting clearance for their charter flights to leave, an organiser told Reuters, blaming the delay on the US state dep...

For many students, spelling isn’t just a study, but also an all-encompassing way to learn about the world. “Spelling is not just taking these 500,000 words in the English language and mem...

An Indian-American couple and their one-year-old child are among more than 150 people who are still missing in the partial collapse of the 12-storey residential building in Surfside, Florida, on Thurs...

Joe Biden on Tuesday became the first sitting US President to visit the site in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where hundreds of Black Americans were massacred by a white mob in 1921, and he said the legacy of raci...

In February 2021, when the 61-year-old Noel Quintana boarded a train at Brooklyn to head to work, he was attacked by a stranger: the assailant slashed his face, ear to ear, with a box cutter. Quintana...

From her flower stand on Market Street, Patricia Lee saw the glint of a large blade and then feathers from a winter jacket fly through the air. An older woman buckled to her knees. In daylight, on on...

When Mike Park first heard about the recent shootings in Atlanta, he felt angry and afraid. But almost immediately, he had another thought. “We can’t just sit back,” he said. &ldquo...