The hardest idea in quantum mechanics to hold in a non-physicist’s head is that a thing can be in two states at once. Not ...

The Riemann hypothesis claims that the locations of prime numbers along the infinite number line all adhere to a beautiful and orderly but obscure formula. Yet 167 years after German mathematician ...

The only snag was that “Shor’s algorithm”, as it is now known, required something that at the time only existed on university blackboards: a quantum computer. These days, quantum computers—which ...

OpenAI has warned that an unreleased model called Astra may be reaching a "critical" cybersecurity threshold.

I founded Xanadu to build the world’s first scalable quantum computer. Keeping the industry here may be even harder.

No one yet knows which technology will power the quantum computers of the future, but the race to create them has already ...

Quantum computers, such as this one shown at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, could run programs that ...

Quantum computers promise to outperform today's traditional computers in many areas of science, including chemistry, physics, and cryptography, but proving they will be superior has been challenging.

Aaron Lauda has been exploring an area of mathematics that most physicists have seen little use for, wondering if it might have practical applications. In a twist even he didn’t expect, it turns out ...

Overview: Mathematics is driving careers in data science, artificial intelligence, actuarial science, cybersecurity, quantum ...