The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Research team debuts the first deterministic streaming algorithms for non-monotone submodular maximization, delivering superior approximation ratios with minimal memory and real-time throughput on ...

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Paying off debts is one of the most important steps in improving your financial life. How you approach it, though, comes down to your personality. If you're someone who needs a quick win right off the ...

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Chiral phosphorus(V) compounds are vital in the fields of catalysis, pharmaceuticals and nucleic acids, yet their stereoselective synthesis has been difficult to achieve. Now, a bio-inspired catalyst ...

Complex digital representations of organs were reconstructed by computationally generating virtual slices from sparsely sampled planar spatial transcriptomic data, exemplified by a 38-million-cell ...

US chemist Alice Ball was born in Seattle, Washington, on 24 July 1892. She came from a middle-class African-American family of photographers; her grandfather, James Presley Ball, was one of the first ...

The 50/30/20 rule, created by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren in her book All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan, has been a gold standard for budgeting since 2006. The method advises ...