A new technique breaks Dijkstra's 70-year-old record: it finds routes faster in huge networks, changing graph theory forever.

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 ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Computing the polar decomposition and the related matrix sign function has been a well-studied problem in numerical analysis for decades. Recently, it has emerged as an important subroutine within the ...

1 Faculty of Land Resource Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan, China 2 China Construction Eighth Bureau Engineering Research Institute, China Construction ...

1 School of Earth Science and Engineering, Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an, China. 2 Key Laboratory of Petroleum Geology and Reservoir, Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an, China. In the course of oil and ...

Abstract: This work addresses the significant dispersion error in the locally one-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (LOD-FDTD) method by proposing a novel ...

You might have heard that algorithms are in control of everything you hear, read, and see. They control the next song on your Spotify playlist, or what YouTube suggests you watch after you finish a ...