SHREVEPORT, La. – Algorithms are like the weather. Everyone complains about them, but no one seems to know how it works, and they can affect your day. But unlike the weather, you can change your ...

A new data structure and compression technique developed by engineers at UC San Diego enables the field of pangenomics to handle unprecedented scales of genetic information. Illustration by Alice ...

Thanks to computer numerical control (CNC) fabrication technologies, the method may also be applied to design-laminated timber gridshells. Credit: ©2025 Masaaki Miki and Toby Mitchell CC-BY-ND A new ...

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C-sections can be lifesaving, but sometimes the procedure can be overused. Data helped show how a hospital decreased its rates of the operation in healthy first-time mothers. By Sarah Kliff Times ...

New York, NY [September 4, 2025]—A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has developed a new method to identify and reduce biases in datasets used to train ...

Five pitfalls to avoid by Michael Luca and Amy C. Edmondson Let’s say you’re leading a meeting about the hourly pay of your company’s warehouse employees. For several years it has automatically been ...

In his column “‘Economic Affirmative Action’ Won’t Work” (Upward Mobility, April 23), Jason Riley critiques Richard Kahlenberg’s call for elite colleges to favor class indicators—such as parental ...

Abstract: Several interesting problems in multirobot systems can be cast in the framework of distributed optimization. Examples include multirobot task allocation, vehicle routing, target protection, ...