Often, when there’s talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money. There’s the unending debate, for example, ...

Electrical engineers have developed a faster collision detection algorithm that uses machine learning to help robots avoid moving objects and negotiate rapidly changing environments in real time.

Aerospace engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claim to have developed an algorithm to help drones navigate around obstacles at high speeds without crashing. According to ...

Chemical structure for thiamine pyrophosphate and protein structure of transketolase. Thiamine pyrophosphate cofactor in yellow and xylulose 5-phosphate substrate in black. Credit: Thomas ...

Building a chemical plant. Developing an airline route. Modeling the shapes of proteins. Each of these actions requires optimization algorithms – the combination of math and theory translated into ...