Yes the darkest day of the year is here, but that means brighter days are ahead. Sunday is the shortest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical winter.

An island getaway certainly sounds appealing, but it usually entails embarking on a long-haul flight heading somewhere tropical. And while that's great, if you're in the U.K., you can reach your ...

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 ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) nowadays have been widely used in ocean observation missions, helping researchers to monitor climate change, collect environmental data, and observe marine ecosystem ...

This year's shortest day—Earth's fastest single rotation—will likely fall on July 9, July 22, or August 5. Reading time 2 minutes Earth might be about to spin out its fastest day on record. And no one ...

Abstract: Path finding is a technique that is employed extensively for determination of Shortest Path (SP) between source node and destination node. There are various path-finding algorithms like ...

s = [1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 12, 13, 14, 9, 7]; t = [2, 3, 8, 9, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 8, 6, 7, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14, 15, 10, 10]; weight ...

When it comes to tipping points, one of the greatest worries is the status of what is known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC—a key player in making the northern part of ...