Between 2008 and 2020, the United States experienced a relentless increase in “Separation”—the researchers’ metric for the distance between the average opinion of the two groups. By 2024, the degree ...

Almost all the rise in US polarisation over political issues since the late 1980s occurred from 2008 onwards, a new study suggests. Most of this has been driven by the American left becoming more ...

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed a new tool to predict how cancer cells evolve. By focusing on chromosome ...

Divisions within the US population on social and political issues have increased by 64% since 1988, with almost all this coming after 2008, according to a study tracking polarization from the end of ...

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 ...

What would you like to Propose? I would like to propose adding a new sorting algorithm — Tournament Sort — in the sorts package. Tournament Sort is a comparison-based sorting algorithm that simulates ...

If you are looking to micro-manage your folders in Outlook, it is essential to organize them. You can alphabetically sort out the folders to make navigation quicker and more intuitive, especially when ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

In a bid to overcome shortcomings in scientific computing, Chinese scientists have unveiled a new approach to sorting data that promises both higher speed and lower energy consumption. The system ...

I've recently been using fast-calib for multi-sensor calibration and encountered some strange phenomena. For some perspectives, the calculated translation is several meters, which is clearly incorrect ...