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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.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

Abstract: Terahertz (THz) circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) demands higher precision in motion compensation (MOCO), posing significant challenges. To address this issue, this article proposes a ...

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 often surprise us with their natural problem-solving skills. A new study shows that they can discover efficient algorithms on their own. Researchers Huiwen Alex Yang, Bill D. Thompson, and ...

TikTok’s Chinese owner is poised to keep roughly half the profits from the app’s US business — even after ceding majority ownership to US investors under a deal pushed by President Trump, according to ...

As one of the cutting-edge research areas in modern physics, space-based gravitational wave detection aims at capturing gravitational wave signals in the mHz frequency band. A key technological ...