A puzzle that has long flummoxed computers and the scientists who program them has suddenly become far more manageable. A new algorithm efficiently solves the graph isomorphism problem, computer ...

BIG STEP: Buncombe County's hourly living wage rate, as calculated by Just Economics, jumped from $17.70 to $20.10 this year — the largest one-year change in the program's history. Graph by ...

Where did all the making-stuff and growing-stuff jobs go? They went into services. The champion in the last six decades was finance, insurance and real estate, which doubled its share of ...

The graph above is an economic history of the world, after 1 AD, from a research letter written by Michael Cembalest, chairman of market and investment strategy at JP Morgan.

Evergrande problems signal basic shift in China's economic model. Achieving its lofty green goals could save planet. ... It is clear that the economic engines, such as property, ...