Tony Dokoupil is the anchor of the new "CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil." He previously served as co-host of "CBS Mornings" and anchored "The Uplift," a weekly series spotlighting positive and ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

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 ...

Abstract: Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) alleviates latency and bandwidth strain on centralized cloud infrastructures by enabling the offloading of tasks to proximal edge servers, yet resource ...

Streaming services are helping revive America’s most old-fashioned, undigital genre. Charley Crockett, a rising star in the roots-music field, performing in Nashville, Ind., in May.Credit...Kristine ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

Abstract: The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), a classic combinatorial optimization problem, has been extensively studied for many years. Recently, the Multi-solution Traveling Salesman Problem ...

Generative modeling has enabled novel approaches to the design of functional molecules. However, its practical utility has been impeded by its tendency to propose molecules that are difficult or ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

Kayte Spector-Bagdady receives funding from the National Center for Advancing Transnational Sciences and the Greenwall Foundation. As soon as the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy ...