This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard ...
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Metals Crucial to Clean Energy Are Getting Caught Up in the US–China Trade War

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the summer of 2023, Vasileios ...
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Does Chocolate Go Bad? How to Store It, Freeze it, and Ship It
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If you’re keeping your bonbons much more than a week before eating, this is when we start talking about fridges ...
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Elon Musk’s Man in the Treasury Is Still Holding Down His Day Job as Software CEO

This morning, workers at the US Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) received an email announcing that Tom ...
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A Nose-Computer Interface Could Turn Dogs Into Super Detectors

So far the array has been tested in rats, with a version for dogs coming later, Lavella says. In a ...
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Revenge of the Covid Conspiracy Theorists

A week after the inauguration, US senator Rand Paul of Kentucky issued a flurry of congressional subpoenas to 14 agencies, ...
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Want to Make Your Spotify Wrapped Better This Year? Start Now

Spotify Wrapped has become quite the event. You’ll know the minute the streaming giant drops its annual roundup of user ...
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