The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Seeking to reduce the computing power needed for the widely used dynamic mode decomposition algorithm, a team of researchers in China led by Guo-Ping Guo developed a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm ...

Biologists have long understood the various parts within the cell. But how these parts interact with and respond to each other is largely unknown. "We want to understand how cells make decisions, so ...

Blood-based biomarkers are of particular interest as cancer screening tests as a result of their convenience, low cost, and quantitative measure. The incorporation of biomarkers into a screening ...

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 ...