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ORIGAMI-style space homes that spring off the ground on Mars could house future visitors to the red planet. These hi-tech ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (MIT) have developed a method for designing three-dimensional (3D) structures that transform from a flat layout into a curved, fully formed ...

"Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths" by Ran Duan, Jiayi Mao, Xiao Mao, Xinkai Shu, and Longhui Yin (2025) Use the road_network_benchmark example to evaluate the ...

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 ...

Some algorithms solve problems. This one changed civilization. From guiding satellites to securing your bank account, its influence reaches every corner of technology. It started with a simple insight ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the deepening of global economic integration, maritime logistics has become the core pillar of international trade, carrying more than 80% of global trade volume. Among the factors influencing ...