One of the best parts of my job—besides the travel itself, of course—is road-testing products designed to make time on the road hassle-free, smarter, and fun. My latest travel essentials span the ...
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 ...
PHOENIX — A Valley woman was searching for answers about her recycling bin pickup when she couldn't get any. 'Let ABC15 Know' picked up the problem. Doris R. wanted an explanation from the City of ...
The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 69, No. 3 (MARCH 2018), pp. 402-415 (14 pages) This paper presents a heuristic for the guillotine two-dimensional bin packing problem, where a set ...
Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and solve the long-standing polaron problem, unlocking deeper understanding of ...
In math, the search for optimal patterns never ends. The sphere-packing problem — which asks how to cram balls into a (high-dimensional) box as efficiently as possible — is no exception. It has ...
How bees, beer cans and big data all solve the same problem: not enough space. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, ...
Where Ya Bin opened its first store in Iowa on May 2, and the new store is offering deals as big as 90% off of retail prices on anything from toys to purses to diapers. Every week, Where Ya Been has ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...
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