The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The problem: That solution looks broken, too. The US job ...

As the College Football Playoff gets ready to debut on Friday, Dec. 19, there's plenty of talk about the state of college football. Between the NIL (name, image, likeness) and the NCAA Transfer Portal ...

ALBANY — With the start of the 2025-26 ice hockey season only days away, the Section 2 Athletic Council and the Eastern New York chapter of the National Ice Hockey Officials Association (ENY NIHOA) ...

C-sections can be lifesaving, but sometimes the procedure can be overused. Data helped show how a hospital decreased its rates of the operation in healthy first-time mothers. By Sarah Kliff Times ...

Financial and social incentives can nudge doctors away from the operating room. By Sarah Kliff and Bianca Pallaro Sarah Kliff reported from Rochester, N.Y. Bianca Pallaro analyzed historical C-section ...

We meet a solutions architect who tells us that his defining characteristic is curiosity, and that for him success is in solving problems with technology, for people. In a recent episode of the First ...

Microplastics seem to be everywhere—in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in human organs, blood, testicles, placentas and even brains. While the full health ...

Poornika Ananth does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

Two mathematicians have used a new geometric approach in order to address a very old problem in algebra. In school, we often learn how to multiply out and factor polynomial equations like (x² – 1) or ...