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 ...

Christian Anderson caught fire, and short-handed Texas Tech stole the show at a Duke-friendly Madison Square Garden on Saturday night in the SentinelOne Classic. Anderson erupted for 23 of his 27 ...

The fire at PG&E Mission substation Saturday struck 22 years to the day after a strikingly similar fire, which ultimately triggered regulatory sanctions against the utility. Those sanctions centered ...

“We’re in trouble,” Cristina Biffle texted her mother, Cathy Grossu, just before the plane crashed, Grossu told People magazine. Biffle’s private jet went down minutes after takeoff as it attempted to ...

Nicole Charky-Chami is a senior editor based in Los Angeles, writing and producing breaking news. She teaches journalism courses for UCLA Extension and previously taught at Loyola Marymount University ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X “She texted me from the plane and she said, ‘We’re in trouble.’ And that was it,” an emotional ...

Sinners is all over the Oscars shortlist, Weapons launched a thousand Aunt Gladys Halloween costumes, and 28 Years Later revitalized a decades-old film franchise. Horror is thriving, but M3GAN, the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Tennis bad boy Nick Kyrgios launched his video podcast series Good Trouble last year with guests including Gordon Ramsay and Mike Tyson. The series, which was produced by Naomi Osaka’s ...

Duke entered the 2025 season with high expectations, ranked No. 7 in the nation thanks to four returning starters from a team that came four points short of a 2025 Final Four appearance. With tough ...

President Donald Trump re-took the White House on campaign promises aimed at upending the global climate debate. He vowed to dismantle climate legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act and recommit ...

President Donald Trump declared last week that House Speaker Mike Johnson “has been a fantastic speaker,” making it clear that he considers Johnson to be one of his most important subordinates. Trump ...

For Oracle, it’s likely bad enough being the mixed metaphor canary in the AI bubble coal mine. But on Friday, the beleaguered Silicon Vally giant found a new way to suffer. Shares of Larry Ellison’s ...