Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

Journal Editorial Report: Obama pushes California’s Prop 50 ahead of election day. With most of Washington shut down, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recalled employees to ensure that one statistic was ...

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 ...

The calculator on your Apple devices can do more than add, subtract, multiply and divide. Here's how it can help you with all kinds of math problems. Labor claim victory in key by-election Charlie ...

Scuderia Ferrari Formula One driver Charles Leclerc was left frustrated after losing a potential victory to Lando Norris. Leclerc held an impressive lead until he pitted for the second time, losing ...

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and solve the long-standing polaron problem, unlocking deeper understanding of ...

When flash flood warnings pop up on your phone through the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system, you need to pay attention and take action, because those are a special category of flash flood ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

Apple has just released iOS 18.3. The release isn’t the most feature-packed, but it does come with some small AI updates and also something for the math crowd. There’s a key Calculator app fix that’s ...