Expert software and systems engineer Allan Sun shares the system he developed for tackling obstacles big and small.

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get ...

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

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

There is more than one way to describe a water molecule, especially when communicating with a machine learning (ML) model, says chemist Robert DiStasio. You can feed the algorithm the molecule's ...

Rice quantum computing researchers have introduced a novel algorithm that earned the team a place in the global XPRIZE Quantum Applications competition.

Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to integrate and analyze multiple types of data formats, such as text, images, ...

Quantum computing is entering a critical phase as researchers say scaling to millions of qubits is the biggest challenge and ...

However, girls tend to be more diligent in elementary school and get better grades in math class throughout their schooling. And girls and boys across the grades tend to score similarly on state math ...

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 ...

With the increasing integration of a high proportion of renewable energy, the fluctuation characteristics of distributed power generation such as wind and photovoltaic energy affect the safe and ...