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 ...

Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...

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Complex digital representations of organs were reconstructed by computationally generating virtual slices from sparsely sampled planar spatial transcriptomic data, exemplified by a 38-million-cell ...

US chemist Alice Ball was born in Seattle, Washington, on 24 July 1892. She came from a middle-class African-American family of photographers; her grandfather, James Presley Ball, was one of the first ...

Andrew Harris, managing director at Jenius Bank tells Kiplinger: "The 60/30/10 budgeting method is a flexible alternative to the traditional 50/30/20 rule, which may be a better option for many ...