Previously, we watched Tim Berners-Lee knit the world together with the Web, giving us pages to browse and links to click. But a web of information is ...

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 ...

Whether by design or by quiet submission to a rapidly-evolving digital landscape, the world’s largest social media companies have allowed their platforms to become factories of division, ...

Channing Tatum has impressive dancing skills and superstar acting chops, but how was he first discovered? Tatum made his film debut in 2005’s Coach Carter at age 24. While the film was a success, it ...

Editor's note: This story is part of a series about the Class of 2028 based on a survey conducted by The Chronicle in March and April 2025. You can read more about our methodology and limitations here ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Abstract: This paper investigates the shortest path planning of unmanned surface vehicles (USV) in complicated marine environments. A novel path planning method called “sunlight algorithm” is first ...