Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that ...

Every time you scroll, like, or share on a social media platform, an algorithm is watching, learning, and deciding what you ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is 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 ...

Feed algorithms are not politically neutral. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature, using the ...

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...

Systems microbiology now generates data at unprecedented scale across microbial community composition and function, host biology, and environmental ...