The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding ...

Blockchain could make smart devices far more secure, but sluggish data sharing has held it back. Researchers found that messy network connections cause massive slowdowns by flooding systems with ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

WhatsApp's mass adoption stems in part from how easy it is to find a new contact on the messaging platform: Add someone's phone number, and WhatsApp instantly shows whether they're on the service, and ...

WhatsApp is attempting to solve its spam problem by curbing how many messages individual users and businesses can send to unknown people without getting a response. While the app started as an easy ...

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Abstract: Picking up multiple objects at once is a grasping skill that makes a human worker efficient in many domains. This work tackles the problem of getting a requested number of identical objects ...

In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research laid the foundation for modern knot theory, was trying to find a ...

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 ...

There's a surefire way to seem smarter and be more likeable among your co-workers and bosses, says Harvard University associate professor Alison Wood Brooks: Actively listen to what they're saying.

Basic Triangulation: An O (nlogn) sweep-line algorithm for triangulating the interior of a simple polygon. Improved Triangulation: An optimized O (n+slogs) sweep-line algorithm (where s is the number ...

Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé and Neymar Jr. are among the stars that have won the No. 10 shirt from an early age. The No. 10 shirt in soccer is more than a simple number on the back of the shirt, it's ...