The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launched in 2025 to study Mars’ magnetic field and how solar wind has stripped away the planet’s atmosphere over time ...

While we may have gotten away with high-volume, high-intensity training and minimal recovery in our twenties, we lose some of that flexibility as time goes on. Gone are the days when we could down a ...

In power distribution systems, three-phase transformer configuration directly impacts system reliability and load management.

A combination of one "offense" ETF, one "defense" ETF, and a method to tactically allocate among them could help simplify ...

Scientists have developed a new technique that doubles the amount of hydrogen produced when splitting water molecules with ...

As Israel and Hamas prepare to move towards phase two of a United States-led blueprint to end Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, disagreements loom over the as-yet undefined role of an international ...

The tech entrepreneur has said he purchased the bills from the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing and customized them at a print shop Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

Getting good sleep is critical. A 2018 study found that people who sleep for five to six hours are 19 percent less productive than people who regularly sleep for seven to eight hours per night. People ...

Managing your inbox is a never-ending task, which is why we should seek to simplify it as much as possible. When emails pile up, you start overthinking what you need to do—I know I do, anyway. But if ...

When you want to be more productive, it helps to have a role model. Financial blogs are forever interviewing contemporary CEOs about their work habits, but those aren’t that inspirational; they’re ...