Florida is famous for its sunny beaches, vibrant wildlife, and thrilling attractions. But lurking within its wetlands and marshes is a growing ecological challenge: the invasive Burmese python. These ...

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The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The problem: That solution looks broken, too. The US job ...

Shopping will now save the planet. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced this week that the state is taking an uncharacteristically classy approach to tackling one of its most notorious ecological ...

In the Florida Everglades, authorities are using robotic rabbits to combat the invasive Burmese python population. These bunnies, designed to mimic real rabbits, attract pythons out of hiding, aiding ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

Have you ever struggled to pick out your friend's voice over other conversations in a crowded room? Scientists call this challenge the "cocktail party problem," and it can be especially difficult for ...

A Python implementation of a branch-and-bound approach (plus a simple greedy heuristic) to solve a variation of the multiple knapsack problem where items have both individual and pairwise benefits.

You may have noticed that Smokey Bear has changed his tagline. In fact, it’s been different for years now, but with current news stories, it catches the ear differently. Many of us grew up with Smokey ...

Abstract: The quadratic multiple knapsack problem (QMKP) is a well-studied problem in operations research. This problem involves selecting a subset of items that maximizes the linear and quadratic ...