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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Fred Kimball of Raymond, now retired, was a management consultant for ...

Discover the one powerful event that helps solve the majority of dog training challenges from bad habits to behavior problems and transforms your dog’s learning. Six more houses collapsed into the sea ...

American business is smart. It knows different projects have different ROI or return on investment. If money can be borrowed cheaply, it makes sense to build that luxury apartment building or buy that ...

A high-performance, exact solver for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) implemented in Go. Utilizes an intelligent Branch and Bound algorithm with adaptive thresholding to find the globally optimal ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

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 ...

Sven, a sales leader, received a call from a major customer who was furious. Their order arrived late, the product was damaged, and to top it off, their invoice didn’t reflect the volume discount ...

Too many companies launch new products or services without a process for deeply understanding what their customers truly need. They make assumptions, rely on limited feedback, or develop ideas based ...

Need to solve a problem? You might want to sleep on it—for about 20 minutes. New research suggests that taking a quick, deep nap may help lead to a “eureka” moment, as scientists reported last week in ...