University of Southern California professor Helen Choi had a pretty basic assignment for her students this fall: Read a book. To be sure, Choi’s pedagogical choice isn’t novel for many faculty; 71 ...

If the mention of algebra conjures bad memories of math classes, a Python library called SymPy could change your mind about the subject. With SymPy, algebraic operations become easier than tedious ...

os.path.join (folder, filename) ensures the path is correct for the system. On Windows, it uses backslashes (reports\summary.txt); on Linux and macOS it uses forward slashes (reports/summary.txt).

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans’ 911 agency reports that both 911 and 311 services are operating again after being down for a few hours on Thursday due to an outage. The disruption began around 1 p.m. and ...

The White House budget office is instructing federal agencies to prepare reduction-in-force plans for mass firings during a possible government shutdown, specifically targeting employees who work for ...

Micron beat on sales and earnings last night. Management also gave good guidance for fiscal Q1 2026, already underway. But Micron's free cash flow last year was very, very weak relative to reported ...

For every lion in the wild, there are 14 African elephants, and there are 15 Western lowland gorillas. There are more rhinos than lions, too. The iconic species has disappeared from 94 percent of its ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. In what they are calling a “two-birds-one-stone” approach, researchers at Iowa State University have ...

The federal government partially shut down early Wednesday after Democrats and Republicans failed to reach an agreement on a funding package. In the lead-up to the midnight deadline to pass a budget ...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty (50%) disapprove. The latest figures ...