The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

The Downtown Development Authority intends to buy two parking lots tucked behind downtown mall Denver Pavilions. The city said Wednesday that the DDA has agreed to pay $23 million for the mirror-image ...

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Homeowners in Miami's Brickell, Edgewater and Downtown neighborhoods say they want out of the Miami Downtown Development Authority, an appointed group tasked with boosting economic development and ...

As Maryland’s developmental disabilities community continues to grapple with the impacts of more than $200 million in proposed cuts under Gov. Wes Moore’s budget, questions and uncertainty linger.

Network slowdowns could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a superfast new algorithm. The breakthrough offers a dramatically faster solution to a problem that has been plaguing computer scientists ...

Computer scientists have written a network flow algorithm that computes almost as fast as is mathematically possible. This algorithm computes the maximum traffic flow with minimum transport costs for ...

In a breakthrough that brings to mind Lucky Luke—the man who shoots faster than his shadow—Rasmus Kyng and his team have developed a superfast algorithm that looks set to transform an entire field of ...