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Sadly, consumers don't seem to mind that Chinese firms are accused of stealing US designs, as long as the price is right.

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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 ...

The modeling and optimization of wind farm layouts can effectively reduce the wake effect between turbine units, thereby enhancing the expected output power and avoiding negative influence.

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 ...

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Some of Julie York’s high school computer science students are worried about what generative artificial intelligence will mean for future careers in the tech industry. If generative AI can code, then ...

1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. 2 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, ...