Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve ...

Discover a fast and powerful calculus-based method for finding square roots with impressive accuracy. This explanation shows how derivatives and iterative approximation can be used to quickly zero in ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s fascination with genealogy began at age 9 after his grandfather's funeral. His PBS show "Finding Your Roots" combines traditional genealogy with modern DNA technology. He hopes ...

is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. While there is plenty of criticism to be hurled at what music the algorithm serves ...

Roots, the outdoor lifestyle brand that was founded in Canada–has teamed up with a fellow Canuck, actor/director/comedian/entrepreneur Seth Rogen–for a brand new ...

When a Russian émigré documented the closing of a soul food restaurant in Washington, D.C., he discovered much in common with his own history. By Alexander Nazaryan Times Insider explains who we are ...

*Season 12 of “Finding Your Roots” returns to PBS, with host Henry Louis Gates Jr. guiding celebrities as they uncover their ancestral stories. Lizzo describes one revelation as “scandaloso,” while ...

Brent’s Method is a robust, efficient algorithm for finding zeros of functions, combining bisection, secant, and inverse quadratic interpolation. It is widely used in scientific computing. Adding ...

A local TV station owner has changed his offer to sell a building to the Finding Our Roots African American Museum. The new offer is for a smaller building at a cost of $1 million, down from a ...

grpfc attempts to find all the zeros and poles of a complex valued function with complex arguments in a fixed region. These types of problems are frequently encountered in electromagnetics, but the ...