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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research ...

Airlines list all flight departure and arrival times in the local time of the respective airports. Travelers do not need to calculate time zone differences or daylight saving changes, as airlines ...

Find out when daylight saving time ends in November. Fall is in full swing, and that means daylight saving time will soon draw to a close. In the United States, daylight saving time begins on the ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab said on Friday it can run a key quantum computing error correction algorithm on commonly available chips ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how parents of kids ages 12 and younger approach their children’s technology use and screen time. For this analysis, we surveyed 3,054 parents ...