Abstract: Due to light attenuation and complex environments, underwater robots need to carry artificial light to improve visibility, which leads to issues such as brightness vignetting, low contrast, ...

America’s Favorite Charities is the Chronicle’s exclusive ranking of the U.S. nonprofits that raise the most in private support — gifts of cash and stock, specifically. It excludes government grants ...

Penn State dropped to No. 45 following a 42-37 loss to previously winless UCLA. Texas is now ranked No. 33, and Florida State sits at No. 35 after their respective defeats. Virginia and Cincinnati ...

A North Carolina city exudes the “true meaning of community” — and it’s been crowned the “Nicest Place in America,” a new report finds. Asheville ranks No. 1 on a list of places where people show the ...

Did you know you can customize Google to filter out garbage? Take these steps for better search results, including adding Lifehacker as a preferred source for tech news. Earlier this week, Peloton ...

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — According to a new report, Tennessee ranks third in the country with more than 1,600 books banned over the last year. According to PEN America, a literary freedom of ...

Stellantis NV Chief Financial Officer Doug Ostermann is stepping down, another change at the top of the automaker that’s under pressure to engineer a turnaround. Ostermann, who was appointed CFO in ...

The 2025 Major League Baseball playoffs are set to begin on Tuesday, Sept. 30. The Los Angeles Dodgers aim to be the first team in 25 years to repeat as World Series champions. It’s that time again in ...

Twenty years after New Orleans area hospitals faced fatal infrastructure failures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana's health care facilities are still extremely vulnerable to flood ...

U.S. News & World Report analyzed and ranked over 1,700 institutions, supplying readers with a comprehensive list of the top schools in the U.S. Within U.S. News & World Report's ranking of national ...

If you’re searching for an ideal place to get your caffeine fix, you may be in luck. That’s because North Carolina is home to five of the nation’s best coffee shops, according to the review website ...