A new technique breaks Dijkstra's 70-year-old record: it finds routes faster in huge networks, changing graph theory forever.

Abstract: In this article, we present an efficient unified algorithm for the minimum Euclidean distance between two collections of compact convex sets, each of which can be a collection of convex ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

A lip reader revealed the heartbreaking exchange between Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, and Vice President JD Vance during her first Turning Point USA campus event following her husband’s assassination.

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Ms. Renkl, a contributing Opinion writer, reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. In late 2022, when ChatGPT was released, I wasn’t very worried about the ...

Sega, Two Point Studios, and Poncle have teamed up to bring vampires and museums together under one roof this week. Two Point Museum has received a free update featuring Vampire Survivors crossover ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Two weeks ago, Nvidia Corp. agreed to invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI to help the leading AI startup fund a data-center buildout so massive it could power a major city. OpenAI in turn ...

The Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers played a wild one on Sunday night with the game ending in a 40-40 tie. It was the second-highest scoring tie in NFL history and the first tie the league has ...