A shipment of $400,000 worth of lobsters that was stolen this week after it was picked up from an unnamed facility in Taunton highlights a growing and sophisticated theft problem shipping companies ...

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 ...

Learn how to confidently apply Coulomb’s Law using a clear, step-by-step problem-solving method. This tutorial breaks down electric force calculations, charge interactions, units, and common mistakes, ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants us to return to the golden age of air travel, when nobody got into a punching match for reclining a seat into someone else’s lap. He says this golden age ...

The government shutdown may have ended, but problems that were already plaguing U.S. airports and airlines before the 43-day lapse in funding are far from over. “Airlines cannot flip a switch and ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Tuesday that his department may have to close certain parts of the country’s airspace next week if the government shutdown continues. Blaming Democrats in ...

A rapidly growing East Texas metro area is exploring new ways to ease congestion. Tyler and the surrounding area are home to about 250,000 people and counting. Fueled by a growing health care industry ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

As the ninth day of the government shutdown wears on, the focus is on how many air traffic controllers show up to work tonight. The Federal Aviation Administration reported staffing shortages for ...