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 ...

Spaghetti models—computer models that illustrate potential storm paths using meteorological data—suggest that Tropical Storm Jerry could take a northwestward path before eventually curving out to sea.

TROPICAL SYSTEMS OUT THERE. WE HAVE TROPICAL DISTURBANCE EXITING NOW HISPANIOLA RIGHT NOW THAT HAS A HIGH CHANCE FOR BECOMING A DEPRESSION LATER TODAY OR EVEN OVER THE WEEKEND. THEN, HUMBERTO, THAT ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Abstract: This paper investigates the shortest path planning of unmanned surface vehicles (USV) in complicated marine environments. A novel path planning method called “sunlight algorithm” is first ...

ABSTRACT: In any military operation, reliable logistics is essential to maintaining a combat-effective force. Without the continual resupply of ammunition, food, and other materiel, forces cannot ...

IBM has announced their Poughkeepsie IBM Quantum Data Center will house the world's first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer in 2029, dubbed IBM Starling. By 2033, the Poughkeepsie facility ...

Quantum computers could crack a common data encryption technique once they have a million qubits, or quantum bits. While this is still well beyond the capabilities of existing quantum computers, this ...