Days after the Jan Suraaj Party faced a drubbing in the Bihar election, its leader, Prashant Kishor, said there was "no question of stepping back without winning Bihar". He invoked Mahatma Gandhi and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...

Credit - Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Joe Clark—Getty Images, Nicholas Eveleigh—Getty Images, Raimund Koch—Getty Images, Pakin Songmor—Getty Images) In August, Lance ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

The Pittsburgh Steelers have done a ton of maneuvering this offseason. General manager Omar Khan has been uncharacteristically aggressive this offseason, and as a result, expectations are high in ...

A few weeks ago, MIT’s Media Lab put out a study on how AI affects the brain. The study ignited a firestorm of posts and comments on social media, given its provocative finding that students who ...