The Shortest History of AI is part of a fantastic series of primers on everything from sex, economics, democracy and war to Europe, Japan, ancient Rome and India. This one by British computer ...

The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage systems come with different trade-offs between resources such as time and memory.

A clear science explanation breaks down how lightning forms and why it branches through the air instead of traveling in a straight line to the ground. Real-life Haribo! Ultra-rare two-headed snake ...

Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the shortest path planning of unmanned surface vehicles (USV) in complicated marine environments. A novel path planning method called “sunlight algorithm” is first ...

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 ...

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 ...

A debut novel is the latest in an unbroken string of hits written — and promoted — by the network’s stars. Is that a raw deal for other conservative imprints? Encouraged by the chief executive of Fox ...

Fenway Park produces home runs like no other ballpark. And they don't get more Fenway than this. During the sixth inning of Monday's game between the Red Sox and Cleveland Guardians, Boston shortstop ...

On March 11, 2020, the day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Kerry McDonald wrote in her Forbes column that we were witnessing “the world’s homeschooling moment.” She told ...