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How NASA hacked a fix for wheels never built for this problem

When NASA’s Curiosity rover left Earth, its aluminum wheels were designed for sand, slopes and scattered stones, not a ...
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Why doesn’t lightning take the shortest path?

A clear science explanation breaks down how lightning forms and why it branches through the air instead of traveling in a straight line to the ground. Real-life Haribo! Ultra-rare two-headed snake ...
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A Rust implementation of the O(m log^(2/3) n) Single-Source Shortest Paths algorithm for directed graphs with non-negative edge weights, as described in the paper:

"Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths" by Ran Duan, Jiayi Mao, Xiao Mao, Xinkai Shu, and Longhui Yin (2025) Use the road_network_benchmark example to evaluate the ...
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New algorithm finds the shortest path to any point in record time

Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic ...
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IBM Delivers New Quantum Processors, Software, and Algorithm Breakthroughs on Path to Advantage and Fault Tolerance

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- At the annual Quantum Developer Conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled fundamental progress on its path to delivering both quantum advantage ...
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A New Algorithm Beats Dijkstra's Time For The Shortest Path To Any Point In A Network

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...
NextBigFuture

New Sorting Algorithm Breakthrough is Better than Dijkstra

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...
IEEE

Shortest Path Algorithm for Transit Network Including Abnormal Bus-Stations

Abstract: Traffic management measures like one-way street results in the misalignment of upward and downward traveling routes of public transit, which was rarely taken into account by researches on ...
Frontiers

Path planning for unmanned surface vehicles in anchorage areas based on the risk-aware path optimization algorithm

In dense anchorage areas, the challenge of navigation for Unmanned Surface Vehicles is particularly pronounced, especially regarding path safety and economy. A Risk-Aware Path Optimization Algorithm ...