Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Just this past school year, I attended a meeting with my department administrator, reviewing teacher observation data. The numbers didn’t lie—but they didn’t tell the full story. Despite our best ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Astronomers use brokers to identify which signals to pursue in an endless stream of alerts. Looking up at the stars at night, it may not be obvious that the universe is constantly changing. But it is: ...

The video game industry has evolved leaps and bounds over the last half century, from simple arcade-like gameplay to highly immersive, intelligent, and interactive gaming. With advancements in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...

There's "Dancing with the Stars" and then there's "Dancing with Pythons." Dancing with a Burmese python is how the Python Huntress Amy Siewe described a recent encounter she had with the invasive ...