Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic ...

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Twelve former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents who were fired after kneeling during a 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in Washington, D.C., are now suing the agency in an attempt to ...

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It seems Path of Exile 2's full release is about to shift yet again. Still in early access, the action RPG was loosely targeting launching into 1.0 in March 2026, but now the game's director, Jonathan ...

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It's obviously never a good thing when the Boston Red Sox can poach a player from the New York Yankees, especially if said player is a contributor. The Yankees will have to factor that in this ...

Lanes to the College Football Playoff are closing fast, and the number of Power Four contenders with a realistic path to the 12-team bracket is thinning out. With only two weeks remaining in the ...

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 ...

Ten years ago, two of boxing's biggest stars met in the ring when Floyd Mayweather defeated Manny Pacquiao by unanimous decision. It was a matchup of two of the biggest stars in the welterweight ...

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 ...