Professional sports are central to American culture. Not only is the Superbowl the most watched event each year on television, but tens of millions of Americans attend professional sports games in ...

Because it evolves at such a swift pace, the technical outerwear space tends to see most products come and go within a few years. So when something somehow manages to stick around for four decades, it ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...