A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa student-led team has developed a new algorithm to help scientists determine direction in ...

Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

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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 ...

Whether space-time exists should neither be controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions of “space-time,” “events” and “instants.” The idea that space-time exists is no more ...

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'EVE Frontier' developers Helgi Freyr Rúnarsson and Guðlaugur Jóhannesson talk galaxy merger models, black holes, and the thin line between science and fun. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Abstract: Wideband beamforming serves as a critical signal processing technology in applications such as wireless communications, radar, and sonar systems. However, conventional tapped delay-line ...

Houston has been tied to human spaceflight for decades. Now, the city’s companies are chasing something that’s less romantic but more lucrative: harnessing the flood of data collected in space.

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

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 ...