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.

ABSTRACT: A new nano-based architectural design of multiple-stream convolutional homeomorphic error-control coding will be conducted, and a corresponding hierarchical implementation of important class ...

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt (ABC22/FOX44) – Back in 1925, traveling salesman Ed Needleman discovered the beauty of the green mountain state while on a trip with his brother in Newport. Needleman eventually ...

LinkedIn support accidentally revealed its algorithm: it tracks "viewer tolerance," reducing visibility for authors whose posts are consistently ignored. To succeed, diversify content types weekly, ...

BALTIMORE — Claire Pollock kept quiet for years about the sexual trauma that she says forced her to abandon a promising career in classical music. “I couldn’t handle playing anymore,” says the former ...

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 ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Kelly Needleman (MA Media Producing candidate) is currently at Wayfarer Studios (an independent production studio founded by Justin Baldoni) where he supports the team across development, production, ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

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 ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...