This is the context for the Mercator map, the one that shows Greenland looking like a hulking prize to Donald Trump. The ...

What it's like when your spouse decides to change careers to become a firefighter, including the impact on family life when ...

Abstract: The development of quantum annealing has stimulated interest in solving NP-hard problems, including various industrial problems, such as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO), ...

With a five-year, $3.7 million grant from the Heising-Simon Foundation, the Pacific Coastal Fog Research project is poised to ...

This year was exceptionally heavy with news on the outdoors beat, especially as national politics intruded on the solitude of hikers and backpackers. Changes in federal public lands policy had direct ...

The Bay Area's bumpiest ride is once again in Vallejo. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission's annual pavement report has found that Vallejo has the worst roads. It's the fifth year in a row that ...

A federal judge in Chicago on Wednesday ordered authorities to improve conditions at an immigration detention facility after detainees sued, alleging they were held in “inhumane” conditions. The ...

The early-season storm that arrived this week in the Bay Area brought wet, windy conditions that caused slick roadways, fallen trees and power outages. Here are some of the storm-related issues across ...

The Philadelphia Eagles have encountered a major problem they surely didn't expect. The Philadelphia Eagles have gotten off to a 4-0 start this season, but it certainly has not been smooth sailing for ...

AI chatbot ChatGPT-4 attempted a “doubling the square” problem, a 2,400-year-old mathematical challenge from Plato. The University of Cambridge found that ChatGPT exhibited surprising “learner-like” ...