The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

Excel spilled range operator (#) allows formulas to automatically adjust to changes in the spilled range size. You need to be using Excel for Microsoft 365 on Windows or Mac to make use of this handy ...

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew ...