Where to buy, fill sandbags for free in Redding The city of Redding has set up several locations where residents can fill sandbags for free, as long as they bring their own bags and shovels.

A flood watch for northwest Oregon is in effect through Saturday as local waterways continue to rise. The National Weather Service says one to two inches of rain is expected Thursday in McMinnville ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, Wash. – The Lincoln County Health Department asked residents affected by recent flooding to fill out a Flood Damage Self-Reporting Survey, which the health department said would guide ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Google’s Willow quantum computer (pictured here) is delivering. Image credits: Google. “Today, we’re announcing research that shows — for the first time in history — that a quantum computer can ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

Google researchers have made a fresh claim of quantum advantage — the ability of quantum computers to radically speed up calculations compared with their classical counterparts. This is not the ...

Children often surprise us with their natural problem-solving skills. A new study shows that they can discover efficient algorithms on their own. Researchers Huiwen Alex Yang, Bill D. Thompson, and ...