From cells to companies: Study shows how diversity scales within complex systems

A mystery novel, a history book, and a fantasy epic may have little in common in plot or style. But count the words inside them and a strange regularity appears: many new words show up early, then ...

Q&A: Algorithm achieves near end-to-end genome assembly without ultra-long DNA sequencing

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...
Scientific American

The mathematical mystery inside the legendary ’90s shooter Quake 3

Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day ...
AOL

Noah Kahan Will ‘Divide’ And Conquer On New LP

The first single Noah Kahan has been teasing from his upcoming album will indeed be its title track. “The Great Divide” will emerge Friday (Jan. 30), with its parent LP due April 24 from Mercury.
The Economist

Divide and conquer: Russia’s war enters the grey-zone

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Vladimir Putin’s increasingly brazen acts of aggression are designed to fray NATO’s ties. How the West chooses to respond will ...
IEEE

A Hybrid Divide-and-Conquer Algorithm for Computing Voronoi Diagrams

Abstract: Voronoi diagrams are used in numerous fields from Biology and Medicine to Geography and Cartography. The wide variety of uses of Voronoi diagrams across this disparate fields requires ...