A clear science explanation breaks down how lightning forms and why it branches through the air instead of traveling in a straight line to the ground. Real-life Haribo! Ultra-rare two-headed snake ...

Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic ...

According to multiple emails I’ve received in recent days, we’ve got another Steel Bridge bike path closure problem. This 113-year-old bridge has a history of problems that result in a gate swinging ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab announced on Wednesday it has built a new experimental quantum computing chip called Loon that demonstrates it hit a key milestone toward ...

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- At the annual Quantum Developer Conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled fundamental progress on its path to delivering both quantum advantage ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

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 ...

After a months-long manhunt, authorities said they may have finally located the remains of Travis Decker, the Wenatchee father accused of murdering his three young daughters earlier this summer.

PATH officials said Hoboken Terminal will reopen early Tuesday morning after a shutdown to finish track work that’s impacted commuters since mid-July. The agency said the terminal would reopen at 5 ...