A computer program can get supplies to disaster areas efficiently even when the transportation system is part of the problem.

Insect's nerve cell development is a model of efficiency for sensing networks. (p. 13)

Today’s media landscape is unsettled ground, still shifting in the aftermath of that earthquake called the Internet. The proverbial kingdom and the power aren’t as much about how many doorsteps feel the thud of a daily paper as about page views, click-throughs, diggs and tweets. But the Gray Lady and her peers are hanging on. A new analysis of which media outlets wield the most influence in the internet community finds that many of the “legacy” media still have pull. Computer scientists Daniel Romero from Cornell and Wojciech Galuba from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

Quality of followers, not quantity, determines which tweets will fly

System uses ultracold beryllium ions to tackle 160 randomly chosen programs. (p. 13)

New work suggests that the envisioned systems would be powerful enough to quickly process even trillions of variables. (p. 11)