Let’s start with some definitions: “Linear thinking is a systematic and analytical thought process that follows a known step-by-step progression similar to a straight line. Linear thinkers view a ...

Researchers have demonstrated that an amoeba—a single-celled organism consisting mostly of gelatinous protoplasm—has unique computing abilities that may one day offer a competitive alternative to the ...

Who is right and what is just has been a question for millennia, but there will never be an answer everyone agrees to. We will continue debating our own ideas of what is right in things like politics, ...

Integer linear programming can help find the answer to a variety of real-world problems. Now researchers have found a much faster way to do it. The traveling salesperson problem is one of the oldest ...