Tiny particles bounce light around in a unique way, a property that researchers are using to detect pollutants in water and soil samples.

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For one population of whales, teamwork makes the dream work. In the Kitimat Fjord System in northern British Columbia, humpback whale counts have been growing at a rate of 6 to 8 percent per year; the ...

You've heard of it being hot enough to cook an egg. How about it being cold enough to freeze a bubble? The Imagination Station shares a fun snow day experiment. Winter storm drone footage shows frozen ...

Researchers from Chiba University have developed a lightweight peer-selection algorithm that significantly reduces data propagation delays without increasing resource usage on internet of things (IoT) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Consistently ranked among the top by U.S. News & World Report, the online Master of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering offers engineering professionals flexibility without sacrificing ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path ...

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 ...

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 ...