How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for its 12th season on PBS. Over the course of ten new episodes, Gates and his team use genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis ...

TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis. At first, the mental health-related videos ...

The dreaded root canal may be necessary for good oral health, but it could also potentially lower inflammation and improve blood sugar and cholesterol, according to a new study. Researchers from ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

Understanding plant root systems is vital to improving crop productivity and climate adaptation, yet their complex underground structures remain difficult to characterize. Conventional imaging methods ...

Ancestry revelations that made jaws drop! Join us as we count down the most uncomfortable, surprising, and emotionally charged moments when celebrities discovered their family histories on "Finding ...

Knoxville, Tennessee (October 16, 2025) – If black, it is almost impossible to find one’s immigrant ancestor – the first one to step foot in America. Dr. Harold Black will discuss his rare situation ...

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 ...

Brent’s Method is a robust, efficient algorithm for finding zeros of functions, combining bisection, secant, and inverse quadratic interpolation. It is widely used in scientific computing. Adding ...

grpfc attempts to find all the zeros and poles of a complex valued function with complex arguments in a fixed region. These types of problems are frequently encountered in electromagnetics, but the ...