Imagine a parallel universe where physicists are remunerated so handsomely that they can accumulate multitudinous assets. In this alternate universe, you naturally wish to share your good fortune, so ...

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

The researchers found that Mario, Zelda, and other classic NES titles fall into a category of problems called NP-hard. A new MIT study has shown that the old concept of Nintendo Hard might be a bit ...

In 1994, a mathematician figured out how to make a quantum computer do something that no ordinary classical computer could. The work revealed that, in principle, a machine based on the rules of ...