An extraordinary botanical spectacle is drawing crowds in Rio de Janeiro: several talipot palm trees, planted more than six decades ago, are blooming for the first -- and last -- time in their lives.

Abstract: Factorization of a large semiprime is a hard problem on classical computers, and quantum annealing is one way to solve the prime factorization problem by converting to a combinatorial ...

1 Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. 2 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. 3 Hong Kong ...

A pause in U.S. tariff threats and a weakening dollar fueled an 11.5% Q2 surge in global equities, with growth and momentum leading thanks to AI-driven earnings strength among mega-caps. Despite ...

Objective: We aimed to identify intersecting factors associated with increased risk for suicidal ideation, intent, plan, and attempts in the US transgender population health survey (N=274), and ...

Balancing water quality standards while facilitating economic growth with uncertain factors in a complex system is challenging for policy makers. This case study analyses the fictional town of Fortuna ...

Five risk factors account for approximately 50% of the global burden of cardiovascular disease. How the presence or absence of classic risk factors affects lifetime estimates of cardiovascular disease ...

Some of the environmental factors are modifiable, the researchers said. Nature versus nurture: Scientists are gathering more evidence on which has more of an impact on human well-being amid the aging ...