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Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Clathrate hydrates are crystalline inclusion compounds with relevance to global ...

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 ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

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 ...

Google’s June 2025 Core Update just finished. What’s notable is that while some say it was a big update, it didn’t feel disruptive, indicating that the changes may have been more subtle than game ...

The burnt toast theory is a metaphor for life that helps people interpret minor inconveniences as having positive ripple effects or a “silver lining.” It’s related to the butterfly effect. While not a ...

1 Department of Industrial Engineering and Maintenance, Polytechnic University of Mongo, Mongo, Chad. 2 Department of Technical Sciences, University of N’Djamena, N’Djamena, Chad. 3 Department of ...