Yes the darkest day of the year is here, but that means brighter days are ahead. Sunday is the shortest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical winter.

Sunday marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, signaling the start of astronomical winter Yes the darkest day of the year is here, but that means brighter days are ahead. Sunday ...

Greenport Village is going against the grain when it comes to regulating short-term rentals on the East End. As other municipalities clamp down, village trustees have approved new rental laws that ...

Pour one out for the ancient MetroCard and its equally old cousin, the PATH SmartLink card. The beginning of the end for these longtime ways to pay fares on the bi-state PATH system came Thursday when ...

With short-form video now dominant on social media, researchers are racing to understand how the highly engaging, algorithm-driven format may be reshaping the brain. From TikTok to Instagram Reels and ...

The cost of a single PATH train ticket is set to increase next spring — and will climb steadily each year until it hits $4 by 2029, Port Authority officials said. A single trip on the PATH train, ...

As we draw closer to Christmas and winter sets in, the days become shorter and darker, with the winter solstice marking the shortest day of the year. But when exactly is the shortest day of the year, ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

Saturday's Week 9 heavyweight matchup between No. 8 Ole Miss and No. 13 Oklahoma essentially determined who had a clear inside path to the SEC Championship Game — and likely the College Football ...

In yesterday’s Morning Capsule, we shared with you that China was restricting the export of rare earths to gain leverage in talks with the U.S. President Trump is considering responding. Opposition in ...

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 ...