Wall Street ticks toward a record following mixed data on the job market US intercepts fifth sanctioned tanker as it exerts control over Venezuelan oil distribution Luigi Mangione heads to court as he ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Abstract: Sorting is a fundamental operation widely used in computer science for organizing data in a particular order. This involves operations such as comparison, exchange, and assignment. Multiple ...

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 ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

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 ...

“When I go very fast and attack the downhill, I take a risk,” says four-time Grand Tour winner Vincenzo Nibali. “It’s normal. It’s my work.” “You play with your life,” adds Fabian Cancellara, one of ...