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

Previously, we watched Tim Berners-Lee knit the world together with the Web, giving us pages to browse and links to click. But a web of information is useless if the physical network carrying it ...

Driving north on Highway 1 in Marin County, past the timeworn oyster farms lining Tomales Bay, the idyllic scenery emerges as the road curves inland. The region’s gently rolling hills glow with ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab and Cisco Systems (CSCO.O), opens new tab on Thursday said they plan to link quantum computers over long distances, with the goal of ...

Henry Ford Health is the latest Michigan health system to provide a health insurance-free option for employers. The Detroit-based system signed a deal with Orem, Utah-based Nomi Health, which connects ...

There is lots going on in the Onondaga County Public Libraries this week! From bells, to relaxing music, to sing-alongs, there is no shortage of holiday cheer. Gardening Update: Plants that are toxic ...

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 ...