Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

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 ...

László Krasznahorkai, seen here in Spain in 2018, won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carlos R. Alvarez / WireImage via Getty Images Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai has ...

This repository provides MATLAB code to solve a rank-order assignment problem, matching N doctors with K hospitals based on doctor preferences. The implementation uses the Hungarian algorithm (see ...

Scuderia Ferrari Formula One driver Charles Leclerc was left frustrated after losing a potential victory to Lando Norris. Leclerc held an impressive lead until he pitted for the second time, losing ...

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 ...

Abstract: The more advanced a civilization is, the higher the mobility of its population. It takes a means of transportation that can answer the needs of the community. Currently, online ...

(Bloomberg) -- Hungarian inflation accelerated far more quickly than expected, bolstering the central bank’s hawkish pivot and morphing into a political headache for Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Power distribution systems are often conceptualized as optimization models. While optimizing agents to perform tasks works well for systems with limited checkpoints, things begin to go out of hand ...