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 ...

Daniel Lokshtanov’s work explores the limits of what computers can solve, paving the way for advances in artificial intelligence and computational efficiency.

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

The University of North Texas announced a number of initiatives when President Harrison Keller gave a State of the University ...

In the late 19th century, Georg Cantor believed his new theory could help the Church understand the infinite nature of the ...

Donald Trump Jr. found himself on the trends list after a reporter straight-up questioned him on his alleged X conspiracy.

Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of ...

There are always these little Korean things that both delight and mildly terrify me, the kind of quotidian oddities that make ...

To address this critical security gap, transaction order-fairness has been proposed as a third essential consensus property. Fair-ordering protocols ensure that the final order of transactions depends ...

A research group led by Prof. Sun Xiaobing from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

The ‘dead internet theory’ began as an online conspiracy: a half-joke that most of what we see online isn’t made by people ...