Physicist Albert Einstein famously posited that if he only had an hour to crack a daunting problem, he'd devote 55 minutes to ...

Abstract: This paper investigates a dynamic slab design problem in the steel industry, where order demands arrive dynamically during a given period. Slabs are the raw materials for producing order ...

Courtney Schultz received funding from the US Forest Service, Joint Fire Science Program, and National Science Foundation for her research on US forest policy Forrest Fleischman received funding from ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) In other words, more fire is coming, more often. As U.S. forests burn, Congress and ...

The western United States is facing another destructive wildfire season, with more acres burned in Colorado alone in 2025 than in the past four years combined. If global warming continues on its ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 69, No. 3 (MARCH 2018), pp. 402-415 (14 pages) This paper presents a heuristic for the guillotine two-dimensional bin packing problem, where a set ...

The Inland Empire’s only public radio and TV stations will air less original programming in favor of more reruns after Congress clawed back more than a billion dollars in previously approved funding ...

The recent passage of the “one big, beautiful bill,” which included the vote of Congresswoman Stefanik, is the capstone for the first six months of the Trump administration. Is this good for the NY ...

Barcelona’s cruise-ship port is to close two of its terminals, as part of efforts to fight the city’s overtourism problem. The closure, which will bring the number of operational terminals down to to ...

I've been working on these thermite cutting rods for some time now. This is some of the footage I've shot during the testing process. I'm not quite satisfied with them yet, but as soon as I am you can ...