New research from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) shows why widely used algorithms for measuring economic complexity produce trustworthy results and how these tools may benefit diverse areas such as ...

A team of physicists has uncovered a hidden topological structure within one of the most widely used sources of quantum entanglement.

Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that ...

What if the best way to explain who you are is not with facts, but with instructions? This video explores how procedural knowledge becomes an algorithm, why step by step thinking and conditional ...

ABSTRACT: Multi-objective optimization remains a significant and realistic problem in engineering. A trade-off among conflicting objectives subject to equality and inequality constraints is known as ...

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 ...

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.

'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 ...

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.

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

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 ...