One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...

The person picked to replace Jerome H. Powell will be thrust into a credibility problem that will be difficult to escape. By Colby Smith Colby Smith covers the Federal Reserve. It was always going to ...

The Supreme Court on Monday morning agreed to take up the case of a Mississippi man who contends that he was sentenced to death in violation of the Constitution’s ban on racial discrimination in jury ...

The global integrated circuit (IC) industry is confronting the physical limitations of Moore's Law. Atomic-layer-thick two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, such as Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2), are ...

JDK 25 brings powerful new features to Java and JVM developers. Here are seven new or updated features that could convince you to switch. Java continues its fast and feature-packed release schedule, ...

Twelve individuals in the Coach category have moved one step closer to election as part of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2026 presented by Visual Edge IT. The Hall of Fame's Coach ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

SAXONBURG, Pa., Sept. 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a global leader in photonics, today announced a breakthrough in short-reach optical interconnect technology with the ...

Researches in Germany have created a comprehensive crop selection tool for agrivoltaics across more than 25 countries. The proposed matrix evaluates species-specific responses of 12 major crop types ...

Woman, 21, is accused of stealing $1,700 in a Martin County phonebank scam, with detectives tracing the money to her account amid rising local fraud cases. Water, Wonder, and World Class Acts: Cirque ...

Jury selection is underway in the death penalty trial of Erica Dotson, a West Melbourne mother accused of murdering her 3-year-old son. Dotson and her boyfriend, Joshua Manns, claim the child drowned, ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.