Modern anti-personnel mines are small and often made with plastic casings that standard metal detectors cannot detect.

Today's antipersonnel land mines are small and often have plastic casings that standard metal detectors cannot register.

Nature’s Ark, has developed two mobile Android apps — iButterfly Explorer and iBiodiversity Count — specifically targeted at ...

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

Butterfly optimisation techniques constitute a class of swarm-inspired metaheuristic algorithms that mimic the foraging and mating behaviour of butterflies. At their core, these algorithms assign a ...

Abstract: The butterfly optimization algorithm shows good robustness and global convergence in solving complex functions. However, there are still problems of slow search speed, poor accuracy, and ...

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 ...

In 1961, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was inputting numbers into a weather prediction program. His model was based on a dozen variables, the value of one being .506127. When he ran the model again, ...

Last year, fashion publications wrote extensively about the impact of the algorithm on personal style. (Vogue Business included.) In last year’s fashion conversation, ‘the algorithm’ surpassed its ...

ABSTRACT: A hybrid strategy is proposed to solve the problems of poor population diversity, insufficient convergence accuracy and susceptibility to local optimal values in the original Arctic Puffin ...