The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward operation: One of the first ...

A new proof illuminates the hidden patterns that emerge when addition becomes impossible. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward ...

Hunting for their first family home, Chris and Miranda Rose fell for the charms of a quaint but impractical thatched country cottage. Their radical solution to its many flaws was to extend the more ...

States are filling the gap to help locate more missing people as families advocate for government agencies to add more alert codes beyond the national Amber Alert system. The Federal Communications ...

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. One morning last November, the ...

When Loni Long thinks of her cousin Benita Long, she's taken back to when she was 14 years old. That was when she first met Benita, a confident girl who was a year her junior but who seemed decades ...

The new figure was a significant decline from 97 just days ago. The death toll in the county remained the same, and officials said many of the missing were reported safe. By Alyce McFadden and Chris ...

The Federal Communications Commission is launching a new nationwide alert code for missing and endangered Indigenous people who do not fit the criteria for an Amber Alert or Silver Alert. This new ...

The number of people unaccounted for dropped this week but remains stubbornly high as some searchers lose hope of finding them. By Orlando Mayorquín and Pooja Salhotra Orlando Mayorquín reported from ...