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Ben Brubaker

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Game Theory

Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

Nov 23, 2025 7:00 AM

Shortcut

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

Oct 12, 2025 7:00 AM

Busy Beavers

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

Sep 14, 2025 7:00 AM

Encryption

The New Math of Quantum Cryptography

Sep 7, 2025 7:00 AM

Computer Science

For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time

Jul 13, 2025 7:00 AM

Math

Why Pigeons at Rest Are at the Center of Complexity Theory

May 4, 2025 7:00 AM

Powerful Memory

Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful

Mar 30, 2025 7:00 AM

Answer Me

Why Computer Scientists Need Magic 8 Ball-Like Oracles

Feb 2, 2025 8:00 AM

Route Master

Scientists Establish the Best Algorithm for Traversing a Map

Nov 17, 2024 7:00 AM

Physics

New Evidence Shows Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement

Sep 22, 2024 7:00 AM

Oracular Pronouncements

Cryptographers Are Discovering New Rules for Quantum Encryption

Jun 30, 2024 7:00 AM

Computer Science

Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

Mar 17, 2024 9:00 AM

Just Say No

Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking

Oct 29, 2023 8:00 AM

Robophysics

A Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill

Sep 25, 2022 8:00 AM

Star Signs

4 Years On, a New Experiment Sees No Sign of ‘Cosmic Dawn’

Mar 14, 2022 2:29 PM

Good Vibrations

How the Physics of Resonance Shapes Reality

Feb 6, 2022 8:00 AM