The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

As the College Football Playoff gets ready to debut on Friday, Dec. 19, there's plenty of talk about the state of college football. Between the NIL (name, image, likeness) and the NCAA Transfer Portal ...

Society is experiencing increased global demand for lithium, a critical resource for rechargeable batteries in electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and energy storage systems. Conventional lithium ...

NORTHBROOK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS), a global leader in applied safety science, has announced significant enhancements to the testing methods for battery energy storage systems ...

The video explores the idea that some of the world's biggest challenges—like climate change, disease treatment, and plastic waste—might share a common solution. It delves into a groundbreaking ...

Traveling recently on the London Tube and on the city’s double-decker buses, I wondered, as I have many times before, why New York City can’t have a comparable public transit system: safe, clean ...

TOKYO, Jul 15, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has decided to transfer a portion of its shares in NEC Capital Solutions Corporation, an affiliated company accounted for by the ...

The traveling salesman problem is considered a prime example of a combinatorial optimization problem. Now a Berlin team led by theoretical physicist Prof. Dr. Jens Eisert of Freie Universität Berlin ...