Like many of us, [Tim]’s seen online videos of circuit sculptures containing illuminated LED filaments. Unlike most of us, however, he went a step further by using graph theory to design glowing ...

Abstract: The evolutions in communication technologies demand high-performance processing units and reliable back-hauling lines for the management of vast data in wireless networks. A reliable ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

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.

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

Every four years, the world gathers to watch as the best of every nation competes at the Olympic Games, broadcast all around the world. The excitement for each competition builds. But before an ...

I believe that every person has a superpower. Some lead with instinct, others with precision. Some ignite ideas, others build the systems that make those ideas real. The trick — in business, in ...

The graph coloring problem involves coloring the nodes of a graph using the minimum number of colors such that no two adjacent nodes share the same color. This NP-hard problem has various real-world ...

Google’s June 2025 Core Update just finished. What’s notable is that while some say it was a big update, it didn’t feel disruptive, indicating that the changes may have been more subtle than game ...

Cambridge-based Riverlane produces a chip that detects and corrects the errors currently holding back quantum computing - Copyright AFP HENRY NICHOLLS Cambridge-based ...