Social Security’s 2.8% COLA for 2026 may not keep pace with inflation if tariffs drive costs higher. COLAs are based on worker spending patterns rather than retiree spending, leading to insufficient ...

The Federal Reserve’s policy decisions in recent years have contributed to a worsening of economic inequality in America, and some of the central bank’s policymakers say it’s not a problem they can ...

Parents of pre-school children in London are delighted: thanks to our collapsing birth rate, it seems the catchment areas of good local state schools keep getting bigger. But there are major downsides ...

Abstract: Unit commitment (UC) problems are typically formulated as mixed-integer programs (MIP) and solved by the branch-and-bound (B&B) scheme. The recent advances in graph neural networks (GNN) ...

Your heart rate can tell you a lot about your fitness and cardiovascular health. Your heart beats consistently, day in and day out, but you may not generally pay close attention to it. You might take ...

Abstract: The ramp rate of a combined cycle (CC) unit varies significantly with its generation level. In current unit commitment (UC) formulations, ramp rates of CC units are usually modeled as ...

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns, The Times found. Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to ...

Capex surges to record in Q1, expected to be higher for the year Azure cloud business grew 40% in Q1, surpassing estimates Shares drop in extended trading Oct 29 (Reuters) - Microsoft's (MSFT.O), ...

Alongside the U.S. government’s overhaul of the federal vaccine infrastructure, influenza vaccination rates in the country have plummeted below the expectations of a key player in the space. That ...