Blizzards are a real-life example of what game theorists call the “snowdrift problem,” a cousin of the prisoner’s dilemma ...

In a small lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, clusters of mouse brain cells have taken on a task normally reserved for computer algorithms: ...

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform ...

Imagine trying to design a key for a lock that is constantly changing its shape. That is the exact challenge we face in ...