Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Guardians are once again being underestimated by baseball’s most sophisticated projection systems, a familiar and increasingly puzzling trend that was discussed in depth on the ...

In mathematics, proofs can be written down and shared. In cryptography, when people are trying to avoid revealing their ...

The Trailblazers and Knights have been the No. 1 teams in the Southland since the start of the season but face formidable ...

Area basketball coaches have concerns about the CIF-Southern Section's computer rankings system for playoff seedings ahead of bracket release.

Over two years after it was announced, Ubisoft is still working on The Division 3. And while it has yet to show off the game, its chief developer has said he thinks it will have as big an impact as ...

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.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

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 ...