The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

My next door neighbors recently welcomed triplets. As you can imagine, their trash cans fill up rather quickly. Recently, the husband approached me to ask if I could do him and his wife a favor. There ...

Despite what watching the news might suggest, most people are averse to dishonest behavior. Yet studies have shown that when people delegate a task to others, the diffusion of responsibility can make ...

Navigability captures the ability of a complex network to support efficient, decentralized search. The concept has a rich history, from Milgram’s "six degrees of separation" to Kleinberg’s ...

“It’s almost impressive how incorrect he’s able to be about an article he’s looking directly at," one expert said. Reading time 3 minutes Podcaster and former UFC commentator Joe Rogan isn’t exactly ...

1 School of Computer Science and Technology, Yibin University, Yibin, China 2 School of Computer and Software, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China Ever since Density Peak Clustering (DPC) ...

Olivia Schreiber and Kyle Shaub lived one floor away from each other in a West Village building. When they saw each other in the elevator, sparks flew. By Tammy LaGorce Olivia Ann Schreiber had read ...

Google’s June 2025 Core Update just finished. What’s notable is that while some say it was a big update, it didn’t feel disruptive, indicating that the changes may have been more subtle than game ...