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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

It isn't often that a decades-old assumption underpinning modern technology is overturned, but a recent paper based on the work of an undergraduate and his two co-authors has done just that. That ...

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Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found the most efficient possible configuration for it. About 70 years ago, an engineer at IBM named Hans ...

Molly Stevens is a cooking instructor, writer, and recipe developer. She is the award-winning author of All About Braising, All About Roasting, and All About Dinner, as well as several other ...

If you saw the off-white serenity of Kim Kardashian’s home in Architectural Digest in 2020 and thought “THIS IS SPEAKING TO ME,” you might appreciate the Mediterranean-inspired Isobel dining table ...