If you are planning a trip through several cities and want to find the shortest route, you resort to algorithms, a well-defined sequence of deterministic operations. This article accompanies the ...

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A federal judge Tuesday ordered Trump ally Lindsey Halligan to explain why she continues to call herself the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia even though another judge determined in ...

The feeling of “take me back” has never been more relevant as 2026 kicks off. On TikTok, the hashtag #2016 has more than 2 million posts, often used to caption throwback photos, old videos and ...

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“‘Emergency’ and ‘crisis’ are cant words, used to prepare our minds for acts of brutality. And yet there are such things as critical moments in the lives of men and women and in the history of states.

Study: Shared and specific blood biomarkers for multimorbidity. Image Credit: pinkeyes / Shutterstock In a recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers identified shared and ...

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Plus is said to have a screen that's almost identical to the Galaxy S25 Plus thanks to Samsung's decision to change its plans at the last minute. The planned Galaxy S26 Edge was ...

New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not just the classic idea of dormancy. The researchers show that some cells enter ...