This video shows a day full of challenges on the road — heavy rain, traffic delays, a rerouted load, and delivery hold-ups. It highlights how drivers adapt to constant changes and still find solutions ...

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 US Border Patrol has revealed what it calls the first “parasitic drug seizure” in Miami. About 3.6 kg of cocaine was “pulled from a ship’s belly”, Border Patrol chief Michael Banks said on X. The ...

Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...

Icelandic owner Eimskip says repairs have been successfully carried out on a container ship that broke down in the North Atlantic last week. The 2,148-teu feeder vessel Dettifoss (built 2020) suffered ...

Introduction: Container relocation in port yards represents a canonical NP-hard problem, characterized by high-dimensional nonlinear constraints and stringent real-time decision-making requirements.

Abstract: A hybrid heuristic approach based on the collaborative combination of a genetic algorithm (GA), a greedy algorithm and another GA integrated with a rectangle packing algorithm is presented ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...