Unless you worked for Ford’s plastics, paint and vinyls division in the 1980s, you probably don’t know the name Jim Moylan. But you might well know the idea that made this unknown engineer who ...

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 ...

SEOUL, Dec 17 (Reuters) - South Korea's LG Energy Solution (373220.KS), opens new tab said on Wednesday that Ford Motor (F.N), opens new tab has terminated an electric vehicle (EV) battery-supply deal ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Tech stocks have been volatile in recent trading as fears about 'Mag 7' concentration in the S&P 500 and AI valuations have pressured trading. But stocks still remain near all-time highs, and Warren ...

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 ...

With statistics clearly showing a decline in consumer interest in sports cars, especially in regions like North America, now is the perfect time to discuss alternatives that might save certain iconic ...

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 ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...