Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.

A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

A research team led by Zhen-Xing Endowed Professor Jian Yang at the School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, has developed a pangenome-informed genome assembly (PIGA) method. By combining a ...

Abstract: The Greedy Permuting Method (GPM) is a method introduced for initial population generation in the Genetic Algorithm (GA). For a test problem with 280 cities, the generated initial population ...

With such a small risk of illness, does this type of embryo selection border on eugenics? By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since ...

Individual sensor systems have limitations in the complex task of classifying shredded tobacco. This study aims to overcome these limitations by developing a novel evolutionary algorithm-based feature ...

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 ...

The Ross 308 is the top-selling chicken breed worldwide, common to the point of ubiquity. The 308 and its close relatives account for about two-fifths of the 22.7 billion chickens being raised for ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.