Today, someone with breast cancer may undergo several rounds of chemotherapy and spend months in limbo before medical scans can show if that particular cocktail of toxic drugs is shrinking the tumor.
Quantum Physics
Jul 15, 2019
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399
A team of researchers with members affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and Japan reports that connectivity is more important than thought when building specialized optimizing machines. In their paper published ...
A well-known computational problem seeks to find the most efficient route for a traveling salesman to visit clients in a number of cities. Seemingly simple, it's actually surprisingly complex and much studied, with implications ...
Quantum Physics
May 12, 2017
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881
(Phys.org)—László Babai with the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Chicago has caused a lot of excitement in the computer science community by announcing recently during a lecture that ...
Researchers from the University of South Florida College of Engineering have proposed a new form of computing that uses circular nanomagnets to solve quadratic optimization problems orders of magnitude faster than that of ...
Nanophysics
Oct 28, 2015
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(Phys.org) —Computer science researchers have programmed a computer to play the game Concentration (also known as Memory). The work could help improve computer security – and improve our understanding of how the human ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 1, 2013
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0
Curiosity hunkered down Wednesday after the sun unleashed a blast that raced toward Mars.
Space Exploration
Mar 6, 2013
1
0
Some Mac users were taken by surprise Thursday as their computers stopped running programs written using the Java programming language after Apple blocked Java due to security problems.
Software
Jan 31, 2013
5
0
Voting went smoothly in Tuesday's US elections, except when it didn't. Some computer problems, as well as human ones, drew complaints across the country as millions of Americans went to the polls.
Other
Nov 6, 2012
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Dividing tasks among different individuals is a more efficient way to get things done, whether you are an ant, a honeybee or a human.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 7, 2012
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