Galaxy Brain’s Charlie Warzel joins David Frum to discuss how our online information became so untrustworthy and how we can ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

For two centuries, mainstream economics has promised that abstract models and free markets would deliver prosperity, stability and even peace. Instead, the world is living with spiraling inequality, ...

Rice quantum computing researchers have introduced a novel algorithm that earned the team a place in the global XPRIZE Quantum Applications competition.

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Clathrate hydrates are crystalline inclusion compounds with relevance to global ...

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 ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Picture this: you’ve decided to host a dinner party. The guest list is small but important. You spend the week cleaning the house, polishing the silver, and making sure every detail reflects care. You ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Data security involves implementing strategies to safeguard digital information against unauthorized disclosure and modification across computing and communication infrastructures. Given the ...

The Progressive Edge-Growth (PEG) algorithm for generating Tanner graphs (parity check matrices) for LDPC codes. Its main goal is to avoid short cycles in the graph, which improves performance under ...