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 ...

A boom in mergers and acquisitions activity and record levels of investment by US technology companies in artificial intelligence infrastructure will drive investment grade corporate issuance in ...

2026 is set to be a banner year for M&A in biopharma, as buyers facing major patent cliffs fight for a small pool of late-stage assets. Biopharma insiders agree that the pace of M&A deals will pick up ...

So many productivity methods ask you to prioritize your daily tasks by considering how much time or effort they'll require, then tackling the resource-heavy ones first. For some people, that's a solid ...

Retailer H&M will shutter two large Manhattan stores in January, according to postings on the state Labor Department web site. The doomed stores are at 18 Church St. at the World Trade Center and 150 ...

It’s not unusual for major players in food and beverage to buy, sell, and merge with others in the industry. It happens all the time. But rarely have we seen such significant shifts in such a short ...

1 DFQM, Federal University of São Carlos, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil. 2 Federal University of Alfenas-MG, Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

The Big Ten is considering a $2.4 billion private capital deal to address short-term financial pressures. Key members like Michigan and USC, along with some lawmakers, have raised objections to the ...

Sergio Scariolo on Kawhi Leonard: The first month I think he told me four words, five words at all. At all. And I was, man, that's tough, right? This is the superstar system here in the NBA, my first ...

It’s an emerging economic narrative that we’ve been talking about for a while now: Upper-income consumers are going out and spending money, while lower-income consumers are pulling back. In other ...

In the constant banter between Texas Longhorns Football fans and fans of Texas A&M is UT acts like "Big Brother" and treats the Aggies like a "Little Brother." And history would suggest that's ...