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Millions of basketball fans will fill out NCAA tournament brackets this week and try to correctly predict the outcomes of every game. The chances of succeeding are about 1 in 150 quintillion. A group of computer scientists are trying to beat those odds by writing programs that learn to pick winners.

Basketball fans have one more day to fill out their March Madness brackets. They'll need to predict not just the champions and their route to victory, but also the paths of all the losers. It's not easy. In fact, no person or computer has yet been able to do it.

This story comes to us from Harvest Public Media, a public radio reporting project that focuses on agriculture and food production issues.You can see more photos and hear more audio from the series here. Wednesday, we'll have a story from a meatpacking plant in Garden City, Kan., which takes a proactive stance toward its newest immigrants.

President Barack Obama will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, a senior administration official said Sunday, choosing a former Senate colleague and a decorated Vietnam veteran and signaling he's ready for a contentious confirmation fight likely dominated by questions about Hagel's stands on Israel and Iran.

How will the San Diego Unified School District benefit from an expected $6.6 billion boost in state revenue? We talk to school board president Richard Barrera about the governor's revised budget proposal, and whether the district will change its plan to lay off more than 700 teachers.

A plan by San Diego Unified School District Trustee Scott Barnett to prevent the district from becoming insolvent was taken off the agenda at Tuesday's board meeting.

More than 100 people who spent part of the winter in San Diego’s temporary homeless shelter are getting a permanent address – four times more people than made that transition last year.

A chain-reaction freeway crash caused by a hit-and-run driver today left five people injured -- one fatally -- and trapped in a mangled SUV hanging precariously over the edge of a three-story-high bridge on Interstate 805 in Sorrento Valley.

A good deal of credit for President Obama's re-election has gone to his campaign's sophistication at interpreting data about potential voters and its use of behavioral research to get supporters to actually vote.

Since the drubbing that Superstorm Sandy gave the Northeast in November, there's a new sense of urgency in U.S. coastal cities. Even though scientists can't predict the next big hurricane, they're confident that a warmer climate is likely to make Atlantic storms bigger and cause more flooding.