The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn algorithm, named after IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn, who patented it in ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a simple yet powerful method to characterize lithium metal battery performance with the help of a widely used imaging tool: ...

Interior designer MaCenna Lee offers simple DIY tutorials for making charming holiday ornaments. Major security operation underway at Trump’s golf course in Scotland as police search grounds Kristy ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Want a hidden home deep in the jungle cliffs? In this simple and easy Minecraft tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a natural jungle cliff house, blending wood, stone, and foliage into the landscape.

For centuries, we have relied on human intuition, behavioral cues, and painstaking manual analysis to determine veracity in written communications. Enter artificial intelligence. AI algorithms, ...

A simple algorithm to aid in the selection of appropriate disease modifying therapies (DMTs) reduces racial disparities in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS), early new research showed.

A study found that an algorithm-based approach can close racial disparities in MS treatment by improving access to highly effective therapies. Over 12 years, Hispanic, Black, and White patients all ...

MINNEAPOLIS – A simple treatment algorithm may help reduce treatment disparities for Hispanic and Black people with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a preliminary study released today, March 3, ...