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

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Open-access databases such as the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) contain more than 2.4 million bacterial genomes, and this number ...