Serhii Tyschenko, a Ukrainian combat medic, spent 472 days in a bunker. His case appears to be an extreme example of a problem that has long plagued Kyiv’s military. By Cassandra Vinograd and ...

This project is an exercise that forms part of the semester report in the Advanced Algorithms course. It introduces the basics of graphs and shortest path search algorithms for weighted graph, which ...

It’s hard to pick any one line as my favorite in the 1998 cult classic “The Big Lebowksi,” because there are far too many to choose from, but I think I most enjoy the moment when John Goodman’s ...

Taylor, a 31-year-old nurse from Austin, Texas, appeared on Caleb Hammer’s show Financial Audit to get his advice on how to dig herself out of $530,000 in debt. She makes $6,000 a month, but the ...

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 ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Three Opinion writers break down the former vice president’s book of excuses. By Michelle Cottle Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen Produced by Vishakha Darbha Three Opinion writers weigh in on Kamala ...

I can't remember the exact year I stopped playing the NBA Live video game series. It was either NBA Live 06 or NBA Live 07. That part is less important than the feeling I had when I stopped playing, ...

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and solve the long-standing polaron problem, unlocking deeper understanding of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...