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 chief executive of a Saudi firm says a Trump-branded project is “just a matter of time.” The Trump Organization’s major foreign partner is also signaling new Saudi deals. The chief executive of a ...

Google’s Willow quantum computer (pictured here) is delivering. Image credits: Google. “Today, we’re announcing research that shows — for the first time in history — that a quantum computer can ...

TikTok’s Chinese owner is poised to keep roughly half the profits from the app’s US business — even after ceding majority ownership to US investors under a deal pushed by President Trump, according to ...

The team was composed of UAB students Hunter Forsythe of Hoover and Williams Beaumont of Homewood and University of Alabama student Mallory Hamilton. Forsythe and Beaumont are both students in UAB’s ...

ABSTRACT: As a highly contagious respiratory disease, influenza exhibits significant spatiotemporal fluctuations in incidence, posing a persistent threat to public health and placing considerable ...

Instagram ads impersonating financial institutions like Bank of Montreal (BMO) and EQ Bank (Equitable Bank) are being used to target Canadian consumers with phishing scams and investment fraud. Some ...

Editor's note: This story is a part of a series by USA TODAY Sports called Project: June. We will publish at least one NFL-themed story every day throughout the month because fans know the league ...

This valuable study determines the functional requirements for localization and activity of S. cerevisiae septin-associated kinases using in vivo imaging, in vitro and in vivo protein-protein ...

High-quality random number generators are required for various applications such as cryptography, secure communications, Monte Carlo simulations, and randomized algorithms. Existing pseudorandom ...