Pessimism has become both widespread and persistent. In America consumer sentiment is near its lowest on record. Across ...

Never mind complaints about too-hard or too-easy puzzles — those quibbles pale in comparison to these PR flaps.

One in four people globally live in a country whose population has already peaked in size. 11 July 2024 - According to the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results published today, it is ...

Abstract: Constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) generally contain multiple constraints, which not only form multiple discrete feasible regions but also reduce the size of optimal ...

World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results adopts the analytical framework of the demographic transition—the historic shift towards longer lives and smaller families—approximated here by the ...

Referee Luc Ramos issues a red card (Photo by Andrew Lewis/News Images) and an inset of Brett Robinson, World Rugby Chair (Photo by Mark Kolbe - World Rugby/World Rugby via Getty Images) World Rugby ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

Amid sky-high inflation, water and energy cuts and prospects for a deal with the U. S. dimming, President Masoud Pezeshkian has apparently thrown up his hands. By Farnaz Fassihi and Leily Nikounazar ...

PRICKLY PEAR line the perimeters of brick-red fields. In a few there are crops, but in many the cactus is the only hint of green. Small children, who should be in school, herd Zebu cattle along dusty ...