One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

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.

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 ...

Data security involves implementing strategies to safeguard digital information against unauthorized disclosure and modification across computing and communication infrastructures. Given the ...

Cambridge-based Riverlane produces a chip that detects and corrects the errors currently holding back quantum computing - Copyright AFP HENRY NICHOLLS Cambridge-based ...

ABSTRACT: For a simple undirected graph G, let A( G ) be the (0, 1) adjacency matrix of G. The Seidel matrix of G, is defined as S( G )=J−I−2A( G ) , where J is the all-one matrix and I is the ...

Jane JaeYeon Pyo, a third-year Tepper School of Business doctoral student, has developed a way to measure the distances between financial statements and a novel method of interpreting them, offering a ...

Introduction: Major depressive disorder with suicidal ideation (MDD/SI+) is characterized by high prevalence, high recurrence rate, high disability rate and low response rate. There is an urgent need ...

ABSTRACT: We present a new perspective on the P vs NP problem by demonstrating that its answer is inherently observer-dependent in curved spacetime, revealing an oversight in the classical formulation ...

Graph theory is an integral component of algorithm design that underlies sparse matrices, relational databases, and networks. Improving the performance of graph algorithms has direct implications to ...