On a special episode (first released on November 13, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: While the U.S. is, on the whole, a wealthy country, currently one in eight Americans is food insecure. Meanwhile, ...

Jacobs Solutions has underperformed major indices but shows a positive trend, with an 8% return over 30 months and a 13.4% gain in the past 18 months. The company operates through Infrastructure & ...

On Thursday, President Trump decided to renege on his 40 percent tariffs on Brazilian goods, ending a problem he created. The agricultural products tariffed—beef, fruit, coffee, cocoa—were getting ...

Back in engineering school, I had a professor who used to glory in the misleading assignment. He would ask questions containing elements of dubious relevance to the topic at hand in the hopes that it ...

Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve food safety practices but it is not a magical solution that can solve all problems, according to speakers at a recent event. The Food Safety ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Spanish chef Jose Andres rolled his World Central Kitchen food aid organization into Los Angeles as wildfires burned on Thursday and advocated that politics be put aside ...

Food tech company Shiru is demonstrating the commercial viability of its AI-based ingredient discover platform, Flourish, with two of its ingredients, as the company explores ways to leverage its ...

It feels like our country is coming apart. But there’s one thing that still brings people together: sports. And when it comes to sports in America, the NFL is king. Nearly 20 million people watch ...

Here’s how to enable your team to solve problems on their own so you can focus on strategic planning and growth. Your role as a leader is not to be the one who solves all the problems that arise in ...

It’s an average weeknight and you’re trying to get dinner on the table. Spaghetti is relatively quick and easy to make, so you grab your pot and pull the noodles out of the pantry. You put the water ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward operation: One of the first ...