Scientific American

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...

Innovative algorithm makes genomic surveillance faster and more affordable for global disease outbreaks

Genomic surveillance—the process of monitoring and sequencing pathogens—is one of the most important tools for detecting ...
Reuters

Mega-deals fuel record M&A as boards dream big on takeovers

LONDON/NEW YORK/HONG KONG, July 1 (Reuters) - A surge in $10-billion-plus "mega-deals" drove global M&A to record levels in the first half of 2026, LSEG data shows, as some companies took advantage of ...
The New York Times

The Big Changes Coming to the Times/Siena Poll

The goal is to make the survey more deeply representative of the population. By Nate Cohn A new polling technique looks at the question: How many people in the population are like this one survey ...
Getty

Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients

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IEEE

On the Use of the Nelder-Mead Simplex Method in Control Design and Systems Theory

Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.
IEEE

FastICA-Comb: A Novel Algorithm for Extracting Voluntary Electromyography and M-Wave in Functional Electrical Stimulation Scenarios

Abstract: Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is commonly used in clinical practice to induce muscle contractions for rehabilitation therapy. However, the collected electromyography (EMG) under ...