Today's most powerful computers hit a wall when tackling certain problems, from designing new drugs to cracking encryption ...

The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is a key process in fuel cells and metal-air batteries, technologies expected to play a central role in a low-carbon energy future. However, ORR proceeds slowly on ...

A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

Peer review has met its match.

A learning algorithm is a mathematical framework or procedure that calculates the best output given a particular set of data. It does this by updating the calculation based on the difference between ...

Breaking Down the Materials Research Letters Impact Factor So, what exactly is this "Impact Factor" for Materials ...