Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.

Pew Research Center’s 2026 political typology divides the public into nine groups. The assignment of individuals to one of the nine groups is based on their responses to 30 questions about social and ...

Penn Engineers have developed an open-source algorithm that combines the speed of AI with the precision of geometry to ...

In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

The United States is producing nurse practitioner graduates faster than the clinical training infrastructure can absorb them. NP programs have seen enrollment c ...

China’s CPC Central Committee and State Council issued comprehensive labour rules for the country’s 200+ million gig workers, the first time the party’s highest authority has formalised protections ...

Abstract: This paper studies the multi-robot task assignment problem in which a fleet of dispersed robots needs to efficiently transport a set of dynamically appearing packages from their initial ...

Alibaba's Qwen team has developed a new training algorithm for reasoning models that assigns different weights to individual tokens based on how much each step influences the subsequent chain of ...

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.

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Abstract: A good task assignment is an important guarantee to achieve great combat effectiveness. This paper investigates the task assignment problem, where the value of the targets is time changing ...