A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the ...

Edsger Dijkstra, one of the moving forces behind the acceptance of computer programming as a scientific discipline, has died. But his legacy lives on in every computer. Rupert started off as a nerdy ...

If you’re headed over to mainland China as a tourist, it’s possible to get to most of the country by rail. China is huge though, about the same size as the United States and more than twice the size ...