Driving north on Highway 1 in Marin County, past the timeworn oyster farms lining Tomales Bay, the idyllic scenery emerges as the road curves inland. The region’s gently rolling hills glow with ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Crypto exchange Coinbase Global (COIN) agreed to acquire Vector, an onchain trading platform built on solana (SOL-USD), the company said on Friday. Integrating Vector's technology into Coinbase's ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

The new Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) device increases bandwidth by 73% and reduces power consumption by 35%, according to AWS. Amazon Web Services has developed a new Dense Wavelength ...

Henry Ford Health is the latest Michigan health system to provide a health insurance-free option for employers. The Detroit-based system signed a deal with Orem, Utah-based Nomi Health, which connects ...

State University of New York announced new basic needs programs to assist students further with housing, food, and transportation. Owl Prowl, Moonlight Skiing, Princess Bride Movie Night and more in ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path ...

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 ...

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 ...