After much deliberation, a famous foot stretcher, one cane-shaped massager and others have earned this shopping honor.

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 ...

The global search for the most intelligent animals has become one of science’s most captivating pursuits. From jungles to oceans to treetops, researchers are continually discovering surprising new ...

DEAR ERIC: The home next door is vacant. I think it is a rental property. There is a huge tree in the front yard that is coming over my property. A tree from this property fell on my house a few years ...

Abstract: We present a new Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithm to solve the stochastic orienteering problem with chance constraints, i.e., a version of the problem where travel costs are random, ...

Cambridge, MA – Managing a power grid is like trying to solve an enormous puzzle. Grid operators must ensure the proper amount of power is flowing to the right areas at the exact time when it is ...

A Hawaii without palm trees is hard to imagine. They are part of the landscape that travelers associate with the Islands before they are on the plane — framing pink and fiery sunsets in photos, and ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have sped up everything from app development and problem-solving to scientific discoveries and medical research. Yet, at the same time, experts have also warned ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...