Eight days after its primary election, California officials are still counting ballots. That in itself isn’t a big deal — many states give election officials more than a week to tally votes, and ...

It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...

Whether we are planning a meal or organizing the contents of a desk, counting and sorting are math skills that we use every day without much thought. Preschoolers need these basic skills to lay the ...

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It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

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 ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

"Our novel optical sieve is an array of tiny cavities of varying sizes in a gallium arsenide microchip." When a liquid containing nanoplastics is poured over the sieve, each plastic particle is ...