Algorithms are well-defined, step-by-step procedures for solving problems. Key characteristics of algorithms include being ...

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 ...

Mr. Murphy is the junior senator from Connecticut. Kids are even more in the bag of social media companies than we think. So many of them have ceded their online autonomy so fully to their phones that ...

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 ...