Bruce Springsteen is disparaging President Trump once more. This time, he’s doing it in Time magazine, which has meant a lot to both septuagenarian public figures throughout their lives. In an ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

If there is one thing New Yorkers can agree on, it’s that “the rent is too damn high.” There are, of course, a number of factors contributing to skyrocketing rents in New York City: a lack of ...

WE LOVE GARLIC! We eat it every day, all year in our cooking! So garlic harvest time is a time to CELEBRATE at WILLOWS GREEN PERMACULTURE! I'm going to get right in there, barefoot in the dirt, among ...

Abstract: In the field of computer science, sorting algorithms are crucial because they facilitate the effective processing and arrangement of data in a variety of scenarios, including data analysis, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

In a milestone that brings quantum computing tangibly closer to large-scale practical use, scientists at Oxford University Physics have demonstrated the first instance of distributed quantum computing ...