Quantum optimization algorithms, particularly the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), have significantly addressed combinatorial optimization problems. While QAOA has been applied to ...

Introduction: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by disrupted brain connectivity, but the network changes across disease stages remain poorly understood. This observational cross-sectional ...

Dana Heitz reviews a criminal case out of Arizona involving AI-generated evidence. She sets out some ethical considerations for its future use—an issue of interest to attorneys and courts in New York, ...

You may not realize it, but if you're saving for retirement with some tax-advantaged retirement accounts such as IRAs and 401(k)s, some of those accounts may require that you take required minimum ...

The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understorey due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of ...

As Callery pear trees, otherwise known as Bradford pears, begin to bloom in abundance, Kentucky meteorologist Brad Maushart has taken it upon himself to offer a little pruning advice to the Southeast.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Trees compete for space as they grow. A tree with branches close to a wall will develop differently from one growing on open ground. Now everyone from urban planners and ...

A quantum minimum spanning tree (MST) algorithm leverages quantum computing to efficiently find the MST of a graph, which is crucial in network design, clustering, and optimization problems.

We have a natural fascination with time – how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, how the stars traverse the sky each night. Scientists probe the layers ...

JAKARTA, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Indonesia plans to issue a regulation to set a minimum age for users of social media, a move aimed at protecting children, its communications minister has said. Sign up ...