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

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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH have developed a computational method that can reveal how cells change and ...

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Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

Pokémon Go's new "Precious Paths" season is in full effect, so of course there's a new seasonal Special Research set that came with it. As usual with these types of research, you can claim this until ...

Across the Northern Hemisphere, people are soaking up the long hours of summer sunlight, with no idea that they’re experiencing some of the shortest days since modern timekeeping began—by a ...

Greysun is the lead guides editor at Game Rant, covering all the biggest AAA titles to the smaller indie gems. He's been a big Nintendo fan since the SNES days and patiently awaits a Super Mario ...

New Yorkers may be famous for sticking it out — but not all boroughs hold residents equally long. A new analysis from PropertyShark shows homeowners kept their properties for an average of about 11 ...