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Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. For the 12th season of PBS’s “Finding Your Roots” (8 p.m. Tuesday, WQED-TV), Pittsburgh-raised music star Wiz Khalifa is ...

Even as massive fraud schemes are uncovered in Minnesota, orchestrated primarily by Somali refugees, Democrats are circling the wagons. Refugees and asylum seekers provide a substantial net benefit to ...

More than 168,000 eligible consumers will receive money due to false advertising by a vehicle service contract seller. The Federal Trade Commission announced it will send checks totaling more than ...

julia.py This code displays the Julia set. It uses the kandinsky module. mandelbrot_nap0.py There is a official Numworks Mandelbrot script. This is a different version made from scratch. Uses the ...

Discover a fast and powerful calculus-based method for finding square roots with impressive accuracy. This explanation shows how derivatives and iterative approximation can be used to quickly zero in ...

The dreaded root canal may be necessary for good oral health, but it could also potentially lower inflammation and improve blood sugar and cholesterol, according to a new study. Researchers from ...

This breakthrough allows researchers to visualize where individual genes are active at the cellular level—information that has long been missing due to technical limitations in tea biology. By ...

When a Russian émigré documented the closing of a soul food restaurant in Washington, D.C., he discovered much in common with his own history. By Alexander Nazaryan Times Insider explains who we are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. America Ferrera learns that one of her cousins is director Ava DuVernay in the upcoming 12th season of Finding Your Roots with ...

Brent’s Method is a robust, efficient algorithm for finding zeros of functions, combining bisection, secant, and inverse quadratic interpolation. It is widely used in scientific computing. Adding ...